This is a very interesting and thorough review of the trachoma problem throughout the Union
of South Africa. It is apparently the first time such a survey has been made of all the …

Yet we know that when the first European settlers arrived at the Cape trachoma was already
endemic in Europe, and that, following. the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt, the disease …

IT is with considerable hesitation that I venture to make a somewhat hurried contribution to a
topic which has already been overwritten, lest I add more dust to the fog in which it is …

At the Guinness eye hospital, Kaduna, Northern Nigeria, where 40-60,000 new cases are
yearly seen, trachoma is now responsible for less than 0.5% of blindness and less than …

The occurrence of trachoma in Southern Africa has been recognized for many years. Among
those who first noted its ravages was David Livingston who, over 100 years ago, mentioned …

Over a four-year period between 1987 and 1991, twenty-two patients with trachoma were
diagnosed in northeastern Zaire at the Nyankunde Eye Project. Sixteen patients were over …

The number of cases notified each year is small, but it is difficult to say if the incidence
isdeclining. There is certainly no increase. Along with notification provision is made for …

BACKGROUND As part of the second National Survey of Blindness and Low Vision in the
Gambia carried out in 1996, all survey participants were examined for signs of trachoma …

Trachoma is still the most common cause of preventable blindness and loss ofvision in the
world despite decades of research and interventions for its control. According to a recent …

The prevalence and distribution of trachoma in the Sudan has been studied. The morbidity
rate of 83.2 per 1000 in the Northern Province decreases southwards until it reaches 0.94 in …