Short-sightedness in sight-saving: Half a strategy will not eliminate blinding trachoma

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 82-

  Montgomery, Maggie A ^a   Bartram, Jamie ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLINDNESS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; EDITORIAL; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HOST; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; PATHOGENESIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REINFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; TRACHOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLINDNESS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; HYGIENE; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TRACHOMA; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 75649126916     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.09.075424     Document Type: Editorial

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