Eliminating Blinding Trachoma  

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Cook, Joseph A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 358 no. 17 (Apr. 2008), page 1777.

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Perpustakaan FK Nomor Panggil: N08.K.2008.02 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Trachoma, a chronic bacterial keratoconjunctivitis, has always been inextricably linked with poverty. It would not even be mentioned in the curricula of many U.S. medical schools today if not for its connection with a common sexually transmitted disease: trachoma is caused by four serovars of Chlamydia trachomatis (A, B, Ba, and C); serovars D through K cause genital tract infection. All strains share a proclivity for epithelial surfaces. The organism is transmitted from eye to eye by hands or towels used on the face; moisture-seeking flies may play a lesser role. The genome of C. trachomatis has been sequenced, revealing . . .

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