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Eliminating trachoma in areas with limited disease
Bruce D Gaynor1, Yinghui Miao, Vicky Cevallos
1WHO Collaborating Center, F.I. Proctor Foundation, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|May 10, 2003
Abstract:
The common wisdom is that a trachoma program cannot eliminate ocular chlamydia from a community, just reduce infection to a level where blindness would be minimal. We describe the success of multiple mass antibiotic treatments, demonstrating that complete elimination of infection may be an attainable goal in an area with modest disease.