About the Authors
- Mari Luntamo
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* E-mail: mari.luntamo@gmail.com
Affiliation Department of International Health, University of Tampere Medical School, Tampere, Finland
- Anne-Maria Rantala
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Affiliation Department of International Health, University of Tampere Medical School, Tampere, Finland
- Steven R. Meshnick
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Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Yin Bun Cheung
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Affiliations Singapore Clinical Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Singapore
- Teija Kulmala
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Affiliation Department of International Health, University of Tampere Medical School, Tampere, Finland
- Kenneth Maleta
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Affiliation College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
- Per Ashorn
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Affiliations Department of International Health, University of Tampere Medical School, Tampere, Finland, Department of Pediatrics, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
Competing Interests
Azithromycin and its placebo used in the study were provided free of charge by Pfizer Inc (New York), which had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The authors have declared that no other competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: ML SRM TK KM PA. Performed the experiments: ML AMR SRM TK KM PA. Analyzed the data: ML YBC PA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SRM PA. Wrote the paper: ML SRM PA. Revised the manuscript critically for important intellectual content: AMR YBC TK KM.