Erratum: Prevalence and causes of blindness and low vision in Southern Sudan (PLoS Medicine 3, 12, DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030477);Prevalence and causes of blindness and low vision in southern Sudan

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2416-2423

  Ngondi, Jeremiah ^a   Ole Sempele, Francis ^b   Onsarigo, Alice ^c   Matende, Ibrahim ^c   Baba, Samson ^d   Reacher, Mark ^a   Matthews, Fiona ^a   Brayne, Carol ^a   Emerson, Paul M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Christian Mission Aid   (Kenya)

^c CARTER CENTER   (United States)

^d Ministry of Health   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; PREVALENCE; SUDAN; TRACHOMA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; AGE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SUDAN; TRACHOMA; VISION, LOW;

EID: 33845867671     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040227     Document Type: Erratum

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