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eMedicine - Trachoma : Article by Denise Mabey, FRCOphth, MBBS

http://www.emedicine.com/oph/topic118.htm

Trachoma - Trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness and preventable blindness globally. This disease is the leading infectious cause of ocular morbidity in the world, and it is the second leading cause of blindness.Trachoma is a chronic keratoconjunctivitis caused by the obligate intracellular organism Chlamydia trachomatis.Disease transmission occurs primarily between children and the women who care for them. Some have characterized this transmission cycle by describing trachoma as a disease of the crËche (day nursery).Repeated episodes of reinfection ...

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