Eliminating global avoidable blindness

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 568-573

  Waddell, Keith M ^a,b  

^a Uganda Eye Project   (Uganda)

^b Box 4008 ^*  (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; IVERMECTIN;

AFRICA; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; ONCHOCERCIASIS; REFRACTION ERROR; REVIEW; TRACHOMA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; HUMANS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; TRACHOMA; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 0032732812     PISSN: 00358819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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