Tropical ophthalmology - Prevention and therapy;Tropenophthalmologie - Prävention und therapie: "Vision 2020 - das recht auf sehen"

Ophthalmologe

Volumn 101, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 741-765

  Klaugss V ^a   Schaller, U C ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Prevention; Tropical ophthalmology; Vision 2020

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DIETHYLCARBAMAZINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IVERMECTIN; PENICILLIN G; RETINOL; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; AMBLYOPIA; BLINDNESS; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHORIORETINITIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EPISCLERITIS; EYE INJURY; EYELID TUMOR; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IRIDOCYCLITIS; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; LAGOPHTHALMOS; LEPROSY; LOA LOA; MALARIA; MICROFILARIASIS; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; NEWBORN OPHTHALMIA; ONCHOCERCIASIS; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRODUCTIVITY; PROGNOSIS; PTERYGIUM; PUNCTATE KERATITIS; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULOPATHY; RETINITIS; RETINOBLASTOMA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCLERITIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TRACHOMA; TRICHIASIS; UVEITIS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VECTOR CONTROL; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WART VIRUS; XEROPHTHALMIA;

EID: 3242748963     PISSN: 0941293X     EISSN: 14330423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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