- ►v2020la.org [PDF] SK West, ES West, W Alemayehu, M Melese, B … - Archives of Ophthalmology, 2006 - Am Med Assoc You are seeing this message because your Web browser does not support basic Web
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A Natividad, G Cooke, MJ Holland, MJ Burton … - BMC Medical Genetics, 2006 - biomedcentral.com Trachoma, an infectious disease of the conjunctiva caused by Chlamydia
trachomatis, is an important global cause of blindness. A dysregulated
extracellular matrix (ECM) proteolysis during the processes of tissue ... Cited by 17 - Related articles - Cached - All 10 versions
PM Emerson, M Burton, AW Solomon, R … - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2006 - SciELO Public Health Trachoma is a neglected disease and also the world's leading infectious cause of
blindness. It causes misery, dependency and is a barrier to development.
Trachoma is controlled by a WHO-endorsed integrated strategy of surgery for ... Cited by 12 - Related articles - Cached - BL Direct - All 18 versions
HR Wright, A Turner, HR Taylor - The Lancet, 2008 - Elsevier Trachoma is a keratoconjunctivitis caused by ocular infection with Chlamydia
trachomatis. Repeated or persistent episodes lead to increasingly severe
inflammation that can progress to scarring of the upper tarsal conjunctiva. ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - All 5 versions
D Mabey - Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2008 - Springer Trachoma is a chronic kerato-conjunctivitis caused by the intracellular
bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. In the nineteenth century it was an important
cause of blindness in Europe and North America, but it disappeared from ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
S West, W Alemayehu, B Munoz, EW Gower - Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 2007 - informahealthcare.com Purpose: Trichiasis, the potentially visually disabling result of chronic
trachoma, is a leading cause of blindness world wide. Surgery can repair
trichiasis, but recurrence of severe trichiasis (lashes touching the ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org MJ Burton - British Medical Bulletin, 2008 - British Council Trachoma is the most common infectious cause of blindness worldwide. It afflicts
some of the poorest regions of the globe, predominantly in Africa and Asia. The
disease is initiated in early childhood by repeated infection of the ocular ... Cited by 4 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►iovs.org MJ Burton, RA Adegbola, F Kinteh, UN … - Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2007 - ARVO PURPOSE. Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide.
Conjunctival scarring is initiated by recurrent Chlamydia trachomatis infection.
However, disease progression to trichiasis occurs even in regions where ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
B Shapiro, K Dickersin, T Lietman - British Medical Journal, 2006 - bjo.bmj.com I n thisissue,Wrightetal 1 discussthe role of randomised clinical trials (RCTs)
in public health. They suggest that not all decisions can be based on evidence
from RCTs, and they use the distribution of mass antibiotics for trachoma ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
E Sumamo, P Emerson, K Harvey, M Burton - Evidence-Based Child Health: A Cochrane Review … - interscience.wiley.com Editors' note: Overviews of reviews, compiling evidence from multiple Cochrane
reviews into one accessible and usable document, are a regular feature of this
journal. Our aim for each overview is to focus on the treatment question, ... Cited by 1 - Related articles
