The Relationship between Active Trachoma and Ocular Chlamydia trachomatis Infection before and after Mass Antibiotic Treatment.
BACKGROUND:Trachoma is a blinding disease, initiated in early childhood by repeated conjunctival infection with the obligate intracellular bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. The population prevalence of the clinical signs of active trachoma; ''follicular conjunctivitis" (TF) and/or ...
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Main Authors: | Athumani M Ramadhani (Author), Tamsyn Derrick (Author), David Macleod (Author), Martin J Holland (Author), Matthew J Burton (Author) |
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2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
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