Face washing promotion for preventing active trachoma

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2015, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Ejere, Henry Od ^a   Alhassan, Mahmoud B ^b   Rabiu, Mansur ^c  

^a Hode Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b National Eye Centre   (Nigeria)

^c Prevention of Blindness Union   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE DROPS; TETRACYCLINE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

DISEASE SEVERITY; FACE WASHING; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; OINTMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRACHOMA; ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; BATH; CHILD; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FACE; INFANT; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SKIN CARE; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; BATHS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FACE; HUMANS; INFANT; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SKIN CARE; TANZANIA; TETRACYCLINE; TRACHOMA;

EID: 84965191840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003659.pub4     Document Type: Review

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