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
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D Dean, RP Kandel, HK Adhikari, T Hessel - PLoS Med, 2008 - medicine.plosjournals.org Chlamydia trachomatis is a unique obligate intracellular bacterium that remains
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HR Taylor - Eye, 2009 - nature.com Trachoma has been known since pre-Pharaonic times and this infectious cause of
blindness is targeted by the World Health Organization (WHO) for elimination by
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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
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C Lin, T Lietman - Archives of Ophthalmology, 2007 - archopht.highwire.org In a region of The Gambia with a low prevalence of active trachoma, Burton et al
7 randomized 451 patients with trichiasis to 2 groups. Both groups received
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AA Mathew, A Turner, HR Taylor - Drugs, 2009 - ingentaconnect.com Abstract Trachoma is a significant public health problem that is endemic in 57
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R Khandekar, TK Thanh, VQ Luong - Oman Journal of Ophthalmology, 2009 - ojoonline.org Aim : To compare determinants for recurrence of trichiasis at one and two years
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