The Burden of Trachoma in South Sudan: Assessing the Health Losses from a Condition of Graded Severity

Trachoma is an infectious disease that is endemic to the Republic of South Sudan. In the absence of appropriate treatment recurrent re-infection in an individual will lead to progressively severe states of trachoma, eventually leading to the loss of visual acuity and finally blindness. Here we disti...

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Main Authors: Gouda, Hebe, Powles, John, Barendregt, Jan, Emerson, Paul, Ngondi, Jeremiah
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295813/