Review: Targeting trachoma: Strategies to reduce the leading infectious cause of blindness

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 92-96

  Baneke, Alex ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blindness; Chlamydia trachomatis; SAFE; Trachoma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BLINDNESS; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORNEA OPACITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FACE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TRACHOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AZITHROMYCIN; BLINDNESS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; FACE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; HYGIENE; SANITATION; TRACHOMA; WATER SUPPLY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84860380373     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2012.01.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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