Does clinical diagnosis indicate ocular chlamydial infection in areas with a low prevalence of trachoma?

Ophthalmic Epidemiology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 263-269

  Thein, Jocelyn ^a   Zhao, Puning ^a   Liu, Hansheng ^a   Xu, Jingjing ^a   Jha, Hem C ^a   Miao, Yinghui ^a   Pizzarello, Louis D ^a   Tapert, Lisa ^a   Schachter, Julius ^a   Mabon, Michèle ^a   Osaki Holm, Susan ^a   Lietman, Thomas ^a   Paxton, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydia; LCR; PCR; Trachoma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; NEPAL; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHOMA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; GENETICS; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONJUNCTIVA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEPAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; TRACHOMA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

BACTERIAL DNA;

EID: 0036021779     PISSN: 09286586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/opep.9.4.263.1508     Document Type: Article

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