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The Fight Against Trachoma During the Turkish Republic Era: The Case of Malatya

Osmanli Bilimi Arastirmalari, 2023
Trachoma is an infectious eye disease and a significant public health issue in terms of the history of Turkish medicine. Trachoma was endemic to Southeast Anatolia until World War I, when it then spread all over the country and caused vision loss and ...
Gülten Dinç
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Perceptions of ophthalmologists on the impact of trachoma in Egypt: a mixed-methods, nationwide survey

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2023
Purpose Understanding the perception and practices of ophthalmologists for trachoma is important to develop interventions aimed at disease elimination in Egypt. The survey investigated: (1) the views and practice patterns of Egyptian ophthalmologists for
Yassin Nayel, Matilda Taylor, Ahmed S. Montasser, Mohamed Elsherif, Mostafa M. Diab   +4 more
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The prevalence of blinding trachoma in northern states of Sudan. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Despite historical evidence of blinding trachoma, there have been no widespread contemporary surveys of trachoma prevalence in the northern states of Sudan.
Cromwell, Elizabeth A, Zeinab Abdalla, Elizabeth A Cromwell, Hassan, Awad, Cromwell Elizabeth A., Nabil Aziz, Al Ginaid, Ghada, Ngondi Jeremiah M., Emerson Paul M., Elsanousi, Mazin, Jonathan D King, Aziz, Nabil, Sankara Dieudonne, Dieudonne Sankara, King, Jonathan D, Jonathan D. King, Jeremiah M Ngondi, Kamal H Binnawi, Aziz Nabil, Al Ginaid Ghada, Sankara, Dieudonne, Simms, Victoria, Elshafie Balgesa E., Elsanousi Mazin, Balgesa E Elshafie, Abdalla Zeinab, Awad Hassan, Binnawi Kamal H., Victoria Simms, Elizabeth A. Cromwell, Binnawi, Kamal H, Hassan Awad, Simms Victoria, Emerson, Paul M, Paul M Emerson, Kamal H. Binnawi, Mazin Elsanousi, Ngondi, Jeremiah M, Paul M. Emerson, Elshafie, Balgesa E, Abdalla, Zeinab, Jeremiah M. Ngondi, Balgesa E. Elshafie, Ghada Al Ginaid, King Jonathan D.   +44 more
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Antibiotics for trachoma [PDF]

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2011
Trachoma is the world's leading infectious cause of blindness. In 1997 the World Health Organization (WHO) launched an Alliance for the Global Elimination of Trachoma by the year 2020, based on the 'SAFE' strategy (surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness and environmental improvement).To assess the evidence supporting the antibiotic arm of the SAFE ...
Evans, Jennifer R, Solomon, Anthony W
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ON TRACHOMA. [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1886
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TRACHOMA [PDF]

AJN, American Journal of Nursing, 1918
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Trachoma in Western Equatoria State, Southern Sudan: implications for national control. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: Trachoma is thought to be common over large parts of Southern Sudan. However, many areas of the country, particularly west of the Nile, have not yet been surveyed.
Edwards Tansy, Anthony Sabasio, Karinya Lewis, Diana Picon, Aggrey Ndyaba, Jan Kolaczinski, Ndyaba Aggrey, Lucia W Kur, Robinson Emily, Sabasio, Anthony, Lewis Karinya, Adibo, Obec, Lewis, Karinya, Adibo Obec, Picon Diana, Lado Mounir, Kur Lucia W., Kolaczinski Jan, Sabasio Anthony, Edwards, Tansy, Ndyaba, Aggrey, Kur, Lucia W, Obec Adibo, Rumunu, John, Rumunu John, Emily Robinson, Tansy Edwards, Robinson, Emily, Lado, Mounir, Kolaczinski, Jan, Picon, Diana, Mounir Lado, John Rumunu   +32 more
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Assessment of trachoma in suspected endemic areas within 16 provinces in mainland China. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2019
BACKGROUND:China used to be among the countries with a high prevalence of trachoma. At the launch of The Global Elimination of Trachoma (GET) 2020 campaign by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1996, China was placed on the list of countries endemic ...
Jialiang Zhao, Silvio Paolo Mariotti, Serge Resnikoff, Yuqin Wang, Shicheng Yu, Mingguang He, Yingchuan Fan, Haidong Zou, Wenfang Zhang, Yading Jia, Lihua Wang, Huaijin Guan, Xiao Xu, Leilei Zhan, Lei An, Quanfu Ye, Ningli Wang   +16 more
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A Randomised Trial of Three Face-Washing Methods for the Removal of Chlamydia trachomatis From the Faces of Children With Severe Active Trachoma. [PDF]

Trop Med Int Health
ABSTRACT Objectives A three‐arm, open, parallel‐group randomised trial compared three face‐washing methods for cleaning Chlamydia trachomatis from the faces of children with severe active trachoma. The impact of face‐washing on Chlamydia trachomatis on the hands of children and their caregivers and Chlamydia trachomatis duration on faces and hands were
Greenland K, Butcher R, Etu ES, Abebe W, Bekele M, Dumessa G, Addisie YS, Ariya AT, Solomon AW, Czerniewska A, Macleod D, Last A, Abdurahman OS, Burton MJ, Abashawl A, Alemayehu W.   +15 more
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Serology for trachoma surveillance after cessation of mass drug administration. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Trachoma, caused by Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct), is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide. Yearly azithromycin mass drug administration (MDA) plays a central role in efforts to eliminate blinding trachoma as a public health ...
William Makupa, Anthony W Solomon, Lammie, Patrick J, Martin J Holland, Diana L. Martin (300642), Anthony W. Solomon (146301), Chris Drakeley (79962), Martin, Diana L, Diana L Martin, Molina, Sandra, Patrick J Lammie, Drakeley, Chris, David C. W. Mabey (168760), Makupa, William, Frank Sandi, Chris Drakeley, Augustin Lasway (695785), Bid, Rhiannon, Rhiannon Bid, Sandra Molina, David C W Mabey, Massae, Patrick A, Rhiannon Bid (695782), Sandra Molina (211312), Augustin Lasway, Philippin, Heiko, Solomon, Anthony W, Patrick J. Lammie (113203), Goodhew, E Brook, E Brook Goodhew, Heiko Philippin (695786), Martin J. Holland (146345), Holland, Martin J, Patrick A Massae, Lasway, Augustin, E. Brook Goodhew (300641), Sandi, Frank, Patrick A. Massae (695784), Mabey, David CW, Heiko Philippin, Frank Sandi (695783), William Makupa (695787)   +41 more
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