Trachoma is a neglected tropical disease caused by infection with conjunctival strains of
Chlamydia trachomatis. It can result in blindness. Pathophysiologically, trachoma is a …

Trachoma is a neglected tropical disease caused by infection with conjunctival strains of
Chlamydia trachomatis. It can result in blindness. Pathophysiologically, trachoma is a …

Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. The World Health
Organization (WHO) estimated that approximately 5.9 million persons are blind or have …

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 Antibiotics are an important part of WHO's strategy to eliminate trachoma as a
blinding disease by 2020. At present, who needs to be treated is unclear. We aimed to …

Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide, and responsible for the
loss of an estimated 1.3 million disability-adjusted life years, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa …

Blinding trachoma, one of the oldest known infectious eye diseases, may be facing its end.
Formerly the world's leading cause of preventable blindness, trachoma has brought physical …

Purpose Trachoma, a chronic conjunctivitis that can result in vision loss from trichiasis, is
targeted for global elimination by 2020. Several milestones in the long process towards …

Ten years after the Community Eye Health Journal first devoted an entire issue to trachoma
(Vol. 7, Issue 14), and five years since its last trachoma-focused edition (Vol. 12, Issue 32) …

Trachoma is the most important infectious cause of blindness. 1 Repeated conjunctival
infection 2 with particular strains of Chlamydia trachomatis 3–5 results, in some people, in …