Background Blinding trachoma, caused by ocular infection with Chlamydia trachomatis, is
targeted for global elimination by 2020. Knowledge of risk factors can help target control …

Purpose.: In low prevalence settings, clinically active follicular trachoma (TF) is often found
in the absence of detectable Chlamydia trachomatis. The reasons for this persistent follicular …

A meeting of the World Health Organisation in Geneva a few years ago added up the
number of countries where blinding trachoma still occurred. There were 46, encompassing …

Background Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness and is caused by ocular
infection with the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct). While the majority of the global …

ABSTRACT The Uppsala University Chlamydia trachomatis multilocus sequence type
(MLST) database (http://mlstdb. bmc. uu. se) is based on five target regions (non …

Gambia even sensitive nucleic acid amplification tests detect chlamydia on only 0.5% of face
flies. 27 This is within the expected false positive rate for the tests. 28 If flies are indeed a …

purpose. Trachoma remains the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. The World
Health Organization (WHO) recommends mass antibiotic distributions in its strategy to …

A Chlamydia trachomatis urethral isolate, alpha/95, yielding pgp3-negative but otherwise
normal inclusions by immunofluorescence also gave negative results when pCT …

The authors studied the epidemiology of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in a trachoma-
endemic area of central Kenya. Children with abnormal ocular discharge were evaluated for …

A serologic test for antibodies to chlamydial antigen pgp3 may be a useful tool for trachoma
surveillance. However, little is known about the stability of antibody status over time, or …