Eliminating blinding trachoma

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 1777-1779

  Cook, Joseph A ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLINDNESS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CORNEA INJURY; CORNEA SURGERY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EYE SURGERY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SANITATION; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRACHOMA; TRICHIASIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 42549117309     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp0708546     Document Type: Article

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