Risk factors for postsurgical trichiasis recurrence in a trachoma-endemic area

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 447-453

  West, Emily S ^a   Mkocha, Harran ^b   Munoz, Beatrix ^a   Mabey, David ^c   Foster, Allen ^c   Bailey, Robin ^c   West, Sheila K ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kongwa Trachoma Project   (Tanzania)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLINDNESS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL PATIENT; TANZANIA; TRACHOMA; TRICHIASIS;

AGED; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENDEMIC DISEASES; EYELASHES; EYELID DISEASES; FEMALE; HAIR DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; TANZANIA; TRACHOMA;

EID: 13944253209     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0600     Document Type: Article

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