Trial from Niger finds village-wide prophylactic antibiotics contained spread of meningitis

(PLOS) Distribution of single doses of the oral antibiotic ciprofloxacin to residents of rural villages in the African meningitis belt reduced the number of meningitis cases during a 2017 meningitis epidemic, according to a new study in PLOS Medicine by Matthew Coldiron and colleagues from Epicentre and M é decins Sans Fronti è res in France, Switzerland and Niger.
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