Current trends in trachoma in a previously hyperendemic area: The trachoma study group

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 217-220

  Limburg, Hans ^b   Vaidyanathan, K ^b   Bandyopadhyay, Prashanta ^b   Satpathy, Gita ^b   Verma, Lalit ^b   Murthy, G V S ^b   Gupta, Sanjeev K ^b   Nayak, Niranjan ^b   Gupta, U C ^a  

^a Natl Prog for Control of Blindness   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Antigen; Chlamydia trachomatis; Epidemiology; Survey; Trachoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; TRACHOMA;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; TRACHOMA;

EID: 0032233168     PISSN: 03014738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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