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A Cluster-Randomized Trial to Assess the Efficacy of Targeting Trachoma Treatment to Children

scientific article published on 12 December 2016

A chlamydial type III-secreted effector protein (Tarp) is predominantly recognized by antibodies from humans infected with Chlamydia trachomatis and induces protective immunity against upper genital tract pathologies in mice

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A cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating the effects of mass azithromycin treatment on growth and nutrition in Niger

scientific article published on 3 December 2012

A coding polymorphism in matrix metalloproteinase 9 reduces risk of scarring sequelae of ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection.

scientific article published on 27 April 2006

A cross-sectional study of 'yaws' in districts of Ghana which have previously undertaken azithromycin mass drug administration for trachoma control

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A diagnostics platform for the integrated mapping, monitoring, and surveillance of neglected tropical diseases: rationale and target product profiles

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A randomized trial of two coverage targets for mass treatment with azithromycin for trachoma

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Absorbable versus silk sutures for surgical treatment of trachomatous trichiasis in Ethiopia: a randomised controlled trial

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Active trachoma and ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection in two Gambian regions: on course for elimination by 2020?

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Active trachoma is associated with increased conjunctival expression of IL17A and profibrotic cytokines

scientific article published on 12 September 2011

An outbreak of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis associated with coxsackievirus A24 variant in The Gambia, West Africa

scientific article published on 6 December 2017

Annual Versus Biannual Mass Azithromycin Distribution and Malaria Parasitemia During the Peak Transmission Season Among Children in Niger

scientific article published on 28 October 2017

Anthropometric indices of Gambian children after one or three annual rounds of mass drug administration with azithromycin for trachoma control

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Anthropometry and Malaria among Children in Niger: A Cross-Sectional Study

scholarly article by Kieran S O'Brien et al published 16 July 2018 in American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Application of smartphone cameras for detecting clinically active trachoma

scientific article published on 14 July 2012

Assessing the feasibility of interrupting the transmission of soil-transmitted helminths through mass drug administration: The DeWorm3 cluster randomized trial protocol

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

Assessment of transmission in trachoma programs over time suggests no short-term loss of immunity

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Association between ocular bacterial carriage and follicular trachoma following mass azithromycin distribution in The Gambia

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Azithromycin to Reduce Childhood Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa.

scientific article published in April 2018

Bacterial infection and trachoma in the gambia: a case control study

scientific article published on October 2007

Bacterial infection in scarring trachoma

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Bartonella bacilliformis: a systematic review of the literature to guide the research agenda for elimination

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Biannual azithromycin distribution and child mortality among malnourished children: A subgroup analysis of the MORDOR cluster-randomized trial in Niger

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Biannual mass azithromycin distributions and malaria parasitemia in pre-school children in Niger: A cluster-randomized, placebo-controlled trial

scientific article published on 25 June 2019

Can corneal pannus with trachomatous inflammation--follicular be used in combination as an improved specific clinical sign for current ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection?

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Can we stop mass drug administration prior to 3 annual rounds in communities with low prevalence of trachoma?: PRET Ziada trial results

scientific article published on April 2013

Characterization of B-cell responses to Chlamydia trachomatis antigens in humans with trachoma

scientific article published on December 1, 1997

Childhood Mortality After Mass Distribution of Azithromycin: A Secondary Analysis of The PRET Cluster-Randomized Trial in Niger.

scientific article published on 14 March 2018

Chlamydia trachomatis ompA variants in trachoma: what do they tell us?

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Chlamydial positivity of nasal discharge at baseline is associated with ocular chlamydial positivity 2 months following azithromycin treatment.

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Community risk factors for ocular Chlamydia infection in Niger: pre-treatment results from a cluster-randomized trachoma trial

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Community-level chlamydial serology for assessing trachoma elimination in trachoma-endemic Niger

Comparison of Mass Azithromycin Coverage Targets of Children in Niger: A Cluster-Randomized Trachoma Trial

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

Conjunctival FOXP3 expression in trachoma: do regulatory T cells have a role in human ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection?

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Conjunctival MicroRNA expression in inflammatory trachomatous scarring

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Conjunctival Microbiome-Host Responses Are Associated With Impaired Epithelial Cell Health in Both Early and Late Stages of Trachoma

scientific article published on 21 August 2019

Conjunctival chlamydial 16S ribosomal RNA expression in trachoma: is chlamydial metabolic activity required for disease to develop?

scientific article published on 10 January 2006

Conjunctival expression of matrix metalloproteinase and proinflammatory cytokine genes after trichiasis surgery

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Conjunctival fibrosis and the innate barriers to Chlamydia trachomatis intracellular infection: a genome wide association study

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Conjunctival scarring in trachoma is associated with the HLA-C ligand of KIR and is exacerbated by heterozygosity at KIR2DL2/KIR2DL3.

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Conjunctival transcriptome in scarring trachoma

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Correction: Assessment of Transmission in Trachoma Programs over Time Suggests No Short-Term Loss of Immunity.

scientific article published on 31 July 2013

Correction: Mass Treatment with Azithromycin for Trachoma: When Is One Round Enough? Results from the PRET Trial in The Gambia.

scientific article published on 14 June 2013

Correction: Post-Operative Recurrent Trachomatous Trichiasis Is Associated with Increased Conjunctival Expression of S100A7 (Psoriasin)

Correction: Short-term Forecasting of the Prevalence of Trachoma: Expert Opinion, Statistical Regression, versus Transmission Models

scientific article published on 29 September 2015

Costs of testing for ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection compared to mass drug administration for trachoma in the Gambia: application of results from the PRET study

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Cross-Sectional Surveys of the Prevalence of Follicular Trachoma and Trichiasis in The Gambia: Has Elimination Been Reached?

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Cytokine and fibrogenic gene expression in the conjunctivas of subjects from a Gambian community where trachoma is endemic

scientific article published on December 2004

Design and baseline data of a randomized trial to evaluate coverage and frequency of mass treatment with azithromycin: the Partnership for Rapid Elimination of Trachoma (PRET) in Tanzania and The Gambia

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Detection, quantification and genotyping of Herpes Simplex Virus in cervicovaginal secretions by real-time PCR: a cross sectional survey

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Development and evaluation of a next-generation digital PCR diagnostic assay for ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infections

scientific article published on May 2013

Diagnostic accuracy of a prototype point-of-care test for ocular Chlamydia trachomatis under field conditions in The Gambia and Senegal

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Differential frequency of NKG2C/KLRC2 deletion in distinct African populations and susceptibility to Trachoma: a new method for imputation of KLRC2 genotypes from SNP genotyping data

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Dimorphic Plasmodium falciparum merozoite surface protein-1 epitopes turn off memory T cells and interfere with T cell priming

scientific article published in May 2006

Does azithromycin given to women in labour decrease ocular bacterial infection in neonates? A double-blind, randomized trial

scientific article published on 28 December 2017

Does mass azithromycin distribution impact child growth and nutrition in Niger? A cluster-randomized trial

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Effect Modification by Baseline Mortality in the MORDOR Azithromycin Trial

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Effect of IL12A and IL12B polymorphisms on the risk of Chlamydia trachomatis-induced tubal factor infertility and disease severity

scientific article published on May 11, 2012

Effect of azithromycin mass drug administration for trachoma on spleen rates in Gambian children

scientific article published on 17 January 2014

Effectiveness of expanding annual mass azithromycin distribution treatment coverage for trachoma in Niger: a cluster randomised trial

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

Efficacy of Mass Azithromycin Distribution for Reducing Childhood Mortality Across Geographic Regions

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Elimination of trachoma as a public health problem in Ghana: Providing evidence through a pre-validation survey

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

Epidemiology and control of trachoma: systematic review.

scientific article published on 04 April 2010

Epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminths following sustained implementation of routine preventive chemotherapy: Demographics and baseline results of a cluster randomised trial in southern Malawi

scientific article published on 12 May 2021

Epilation for trachomatous trichiasis and the risk of corneal opacification

scientific article published on 05 October 2011

Erratum to: Short-term forecasting of the prevalence of clinical trachoma: utility of including delayed recovery and tests for infection

scientific article published on 9 June 2016

Estimating household and community transmission of ocular Chlamydia trachomatis

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Field evaluation of a rapid point-of-care assay for targeting antibiotic treatment for trachoma control: a comparative study.

scientific article published on May 2006

Genome-wide identification of Chlamydia trachomatis antigens associated with trachomatous trichiasis

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Genome-wide profiling of humoral immunity and pathogen genes under selection identifies immune evasion tactics of Chlamydia trachomatis during ocular infection

scientific article published on 29 August 2017

Gnathostomiasis acquired by British tourists in Botswana

scientific article published on April 2009

Haptoglobin and sickle cell polymorphisms and risk of active trachoma in Gambian children

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Health Beliefs and Perceptions of Trachoma in Communities on the Bijagos Archipelago of Guinea Bissau

scientific article published on June 2015

Herpes simplex 2 risk among women in a polygynous setting in rural West Africa

scientific article published on January 2003

Household pit latrines as a potential source of the fly Musca sorbens--a one year longitudinal study from The Gambia

scientific article published in July 2005

Human conjunctival transcriptome analysis reveals the prominence of innate defense in Chlamydia trachomatis infection

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Immunofibrogenic Gene Expression Patterns in Tanzanian Children with Ocular Chlamydia trachomatis Infection, Active Trachoma and Scarring: Baseline Results of a 4-Year Longitudinal Study

scientific article published on 15 September 2017

Immunohistochemical Analysis of Scarring Trachoma Indicates Infiltration by Natural Killer and Undefined CD45 Negative Cells

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Immunopathogenesis of Progressive Scarring Trachoma: Results of a 4-Year Longitudinal Study in Tanzanian Children

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Impact of Trichiasis Surgery on Quality of Life: A Longitudinal Study in Ethiopia

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Impact of a single round of mass drug administration with azithromycin on active trachoma and ocular Chlamydia trachomatis prevalence and circulating strains in The Gambia and Senegal

scientific article published on 22 October 2019

Impact of mass azithromycin distribution on malaria parasitemia during the low-transmission season in Niger: a cluster-randomized trial

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In vivo confocal microscopy and histopathology of the conjunctiva in trachomatous scarring and normal tissue: a systematic comparison

scientific article published on 06 August 2013

In vivo confocal microscopy in scarring trachoma

scientific article published on 13 September 2011

In vivo confocal microscopy of trachoma in relation to normal tarsal conjunctiva.

scientific article published on 5 November 2010

Incidence rate and risk factors for giardiasis and strongyloidiasis in returning UK travellers

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Infection with Chlamydia trachomatis after mass treatment of a trachoma hyperendemic community in Tanzania: a longitudinal study

scientific article published on October 2005

Innate immune responses and modified extracellular matrix regulation characterize bacterial infection and cellular/connective tissue changes in scarring trachoma.

scientific article published on 28 October 2011

Innate immunity in ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection: contribution of IL8 and CSF2 gene variants to risk of trachomatous scarring in Gambians

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Intensive insecticide spraying for fly control after mass antibiotic treatment for trachoma in a hyperendemic setting: a randomised trial

scientific article published on August 2006

Inverse relationship between microRNA-155 and -184 expression with increasing conjunctival inflammation during ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Is G6PD A- deficiency associated with recurrent stillbirths in The Gambia?

scientific article published on 01 July 2004

Longitudinal study of trachomatous trichiasis in The Gambia: barriers to acceptance of surgery

scientific article published on 01 April 2002

Mass Azithromycin Distribution to Prevent Childhood Mortality: A Pooled Analysis of Cluster-Randomized Trials

scholarly article published by Robin L Bailey in 2019

Mass Azithromycin and Malaria Parasitemia in Niger: Results from a Community-Randomized Trial

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Mass Oral Azithromycin for Childhood Mortality: Timing of Death After Distribution in the MORDOR Trial

scientific article published in May 2019

Mass administration of azithromycin and Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage: cross-sectional surveys in the Gambia

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Mass treatment and the effect on the load of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in a trachoma-hyperendemic community.

scientific article published on January 2005

Mass treatment with azithromycin for trachoma control: participation clusters in households

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Mass treatment with azithromycin for trachoma: when is one round enough? Results from the PRET Trial in the Gambia

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Mass treatment with single-dose azithromycin for trachoma.

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Measuring the efficacy of anti-malarial drugs in vivo: quantitative PCR measurement of parasite clearance

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Nationwide prevalence study of hypertension and related non‐communicable diseases in The Gambia

scientific article published on November 1, 1997

Non-Chlamydial Bacterial Infection and Progression of Conjunctival Scarring in Trachoma.

scientific article published in May 2018

Non-participation during azithromycin mass treatment for trachoma in The Gambia: heterogeneity and risk factors

scientific article (publication date: August 2014)

Ocular chlamydial genomic variants and disease severity in trachoma: a cross-sectional population-based genome-wide association study

scientific article published in The Lancet

One round of azithromycin MDA adequate to interrupt transmission in districts with prevalence of trachomatous inflammation-follicular of 5.0-9.9%: Evidence from Malawi.

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

Optimising age adjustment of trichiasis prevalence estimates using data from 162 standardised surveys from seven regions of Ethiopia

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Pathogenesis of progressive scarring trachoma in Ethiopia and Tanzania and its implications for disease control: two cohort studies

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

Pathogenic diversity among Chlamydia trachomatis ocular strains in nonhuman primates is affected by subtle genomic variations

scientific article published on February 2008

Pathway-focused arrays reveal increased matrix metalloproteinase-7 (matrilysin) transcription in trachomatous trichiasis.

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Plasmid copy number and disease severity in naturally occurring ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection

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Polymorphism of the Pfmdr1 gene and chloroquine resistance in Plasmodium falciparum in The Gambia

scientific article published on July 1, 1997

Polymorphisms in Chlamydia trachomatis tryptophan synthase genes differentiate between genital and ocular isolates

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Population-based analysis of ocular Chlamydia trachomatis in trachoma-endemic West African communities identifies genomic markers of disease severity

Population-based prevalence survey of follicular trachoma and trachomatous trichiasis in the Casamance region of Senegal

scientific article published on 26 July 2017

Post-operative recurrent trachomatous trichiasis is associated with increased conjunctival expression of S100A7 (psoriasin).

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Posterior lamellar versus bilamellar tarsal rotation surgery for trachomatous trichiasis in Ethiopia: a randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Prevalence and risk factors for trachoma in central and southern Malawi

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Prevalence, risk factors and health consequences of soil-transmitted helminth infection on the Bijagos Islands, Guinea Bissau: A community-wide cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

Prevention of bacterial infections in the newborn by pre-delivery administration of azithromycin: Study protocol of a randomized efficacy trial

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

Profound and sustained reduction in Chlamydia trachomatis in The Gambia: a five-year longitudinal study of trachoma endemic communities

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Public key cryptography for quality assurance in randomization for clinical trials

scientific article published on 7 April 2015

Rapid assessment for prioritisation of trachoma control at community level in one district of the Kaolack Region, Senegal

scientific article published on 25 October 2005

Re-emergence of Chlamydia trachomatis infection after mass antibiotic treatment of a trachoma-endemic Gambian community: a longitudinal study

scientific article published on April 2005

Reports on the prevalence of clinical conditions are more convincing when supported by objective evidence

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Research letter. The utility of using a distended abdomen to predict intestinal parasites in asymptomatic children

scientific article published on 01 October 1997

Responses of the putative trachoma vector, Musca sorbens, to volatile semiochemicals from human faeces

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Retinopathy in Gambian children admitted to hospital with malaria

scientific article published in October 2004

Risk factors for active trachoma and ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection in treatment-naïve trachoma-hyperendemic communities of the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea Bissau

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Risk factors for postsurgical trichiasis recurrence in a trachoma-endemic area

scientific article published on February 2005

Role of flies and provision of latrines in trachoma control: cluster-randomised controlled trial.

scientific article published on April 2004

Safety of azithromycin in infants under six months of age in Niger: A community randomized trial

scholarly article by Catherine E Oldenburg et al published November 2018 in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Seasonal childhood anaemia in West Africa is associated with the haptoglobin 2-2 genotype

scientific article published on 2 May 2006

Seroepidemiological surveillance of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Bangladesh

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Serological and PCR-based markers of ocular Chlamydia trachomatis transmission in northern Ghana after elimination of trachoma as a public health problem

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Serology reflects a decline in the prevalence of trachoma in two regions of The Gambia

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Serosurveillance of Orientia tsutsugamushi and Rickettsia typhi in Bangladesh

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Short-term Forecasting of the Prevalence of Trachoma: Expert Opinion, Statistical Regression, versus Transmission Models

scientific article (publication date: August 2015)

Short-term forecasting of the prevalence of clinical trachoma: utility of including delayed recovery and tests for infection

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Short-term increase in prevalence of nasopharyngeal carriage of macrolide-resistant Staphylococcus aureus following mass drug administration with azithromycin for trachoma control

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Spatial clustering of high load ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection in trachoma: a cross-sectional population-based study

scientific article published on 03 May 2017

Strategies for control of trachoma: observational study with quantitative PCR.

scientific article published on July 2003

Surgery versus epilation for the treatment of minor trichiasis in Ethiopia: a randomised controlled noninferiority trial

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Susceptibility to sequelae of human ocular chlamydial infection associated with allelic variation in IL10 cis-regulation

scientific article published on 18 October 2007

Sustainability and acceptability of latrine provision in The Gambia

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Systemic effector and regulatory immune responses to chlamydial antigens in trachomatous trichiasis

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Targeted Treatment of Active TrachomaTargeted Treatment of Active Trachoma

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Targeting antibiotics to households for trachoma control

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The Effect of Antibiotic Selection Pressure on the Nasopharyngeal Macrolide Resistome: A Cluster-randomized Trial

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

The Flies and Eyes project: design and methods of a cluster-randomised intervention study to confirm the importance of flies as trachoma vectors in The Gambia and to test a sustainable method of fly control using pit latrines

scientific article published on April 2002

The SAFE strategy for trachoma control: Using operational research for policy, planning and implementation

scientific article published on August 2006

The clinical phenotype of trachomatous trichiasis in Ethiopia: not all trichiasis is due to entropion

scientific article published on 10 October 2011

The conjunctival microbiome in health and trachomatous disease: a case control study

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The development of an age-structured model for trachoma transmission dynamics, pathogenesis and control

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The easiest children to reach are most likely to be infected with ocular Chlamydia trachomatis in trachoma endemic areas of Niger

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The efficacy of oral azithromycin in clearing ocular chlamydia: mathematical modeling from a community-randomized trachoma trial

scientific article published on 8 January 2014

The frequency of Chlamydia trachomatis major outer membrane protein-specific CD8+ T lymphocytes in active trachoma is associated with current ocular infection.

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The impact of a single round of community mass treatment with azithromycin on disease severity and ocular Chlamydia trachomatis load in treatment-naïve trachoma-endemic island communities in West Africa

scientific article published on 28 December 2017

The long-term natural history of trachomatous trichiasis in the Gambia

scientific article published on March 2006

The natural history of trachoma infection and disease in a Gambian cohort with frequent follow-up

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The prevalence and risk factors for acute respiratory infections in children aged 0-59 months in rural Malawi: A cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

The utility of serology for elimination surveillance of trachoma

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Towards a safe and effective chlamydial vaccine: lessons from the eye

scientific article published on March 2014

Trachoma and Relative Poverty: A Case-Control Study

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Trachoma prevalence and associated risk factors in the gambia and Tanzania: baseline results of a cluster randomised controlled trial

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Trachoma: an update on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment

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Treatment of Schistosomiasis in a Patient Allergic to Praziquantel: A Desensitization and Treatment Protocol

scientific article published on 29 August 2016

Trichiasis surgery in The Gambia: a 4-year prospective study

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Two doses of azithromycin to eliminate trachoma in a Tanzanian community.

scientific article published in April 2008

Using a nonparametric multilevel latent Markov model to evaluate diagnostics for trachoma

scientific article published on April 2013

What is causing active trachoma? The role of nonchlamydial bacterial pathogens in a low prevalence setting

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When can antibiotic treatments for trachoma be discontinued? Graduating communities in three African countries

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Which members of a community need antibiotics to control trachoma? Conjunctival Chlamydia trachomatis infection load in Gambian villages

scientific article published on October 2003

Will droplet digital PCR become the test of choice for detecting and quantifying ocular Chlamydia trachomatis infection? Maybe

scientific article published in April 2014