About the Authors
- Lotta Hallamaa
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: lotta.hallamaa@tuni.fi
Affiliation Center for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
- Yin Bun Cheung
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Center for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
- Mari Luntamo
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Center for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
- Ulla Ashorn
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Center for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
- Teija Kulmala
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Center for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
- Charles Mangani
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Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, College of Medicine Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi
- Per Ashorn
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Center for Child Health Research, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, Department of Paediatrics, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
Competing Interests
LH reports a grant from Office of Health, Infectious Diseases, and Nutrition, Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), through the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project (FANTA), managed by FHI 360, during the conduct of the study. Other authors declare no 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 our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.