TY  - JOUR
T1  - TReating yaws
AU  - Friedrich MJ
Y1  - 2012/02/15
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.134
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 656
EP  - 656
VL  - 307
IS  - 7
N2  - 
Although yaws was almost wiped out 40 years ago, it has been reemerging in poor rural communities in tropical parts of Africa, Asia, and South America. The study of 250 children with yaws in Papua New Guinea randomized to receive either an oral dose of azithromycin or an intramuscular injection of benzathine benzylpenicillin found that the cure rate for the arithromycin group was not inferior to the penicillin group and there were similar numbers of drug-related adverse events.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.134
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.134
ER  -