For years, trachoma screening has been a routine part of the health examination program for
all primary school children. In order to ascertain the current prevalence of trachoma in …

Detailed longitudinal studies of the microbiology of endemic trachoma in field situations
have provided useful information concerning the epidemiology of this blinding disease. This …

This article re-emphasizes that trachoma is a public health problem of great importance in
India, where one-fifth of the world total blind population lives. A description is given of the …

It is unclear how the prevalence of clinically active trachoma correlates with the prevalence
of ocular chlamydial infection at the community level. In 24 villages from a cluster …

Trachoma is a specific chronic keratoconjunctivitis, characterized by follicular and papillary
hyperplasia of conjunctiva, pannus, and cicatrization in the late stages of the disease. The …

It is a chronic follicular conjunctivitis. In Egypt, the high prevalence of trachoma represents a
major cause of blindness especially in rural areas. The aim of this work is to confirm the …

Experimental acute conjunctivitis was produced in cynomolgus monkeys by ocular
inoculation with serovar B of Chlamydia trachomatis. The cellular responses to chlamydial …

Prance if these heavily-infected compauies were allowed to mingle at ani freely with them.
Moreover, it was evident that unless immediate steps were taken to separate the men with …

Publisher Summary Trachoma is the hyperendemic chronic ophthalmia of eye-to-eye
transmission, which has been known to man from the earliest times as one of the major …