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    Trachoma is an infectious disease caused by bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. The infection causes a roughening of the inner surface of the eyelids. This...
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  • Trachoma is an infectious disease Trachoma may also refer to: Trachoma (moth), a genus of moths in the family Ypsolophidae Trachoma (plant), a genus of...
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    chlamydia infections of the eyes that go without treatment can result in trachoma, a common cause of blindness in the developing world. Chlamydia can be...
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    that causes chlamydia, which can manifest in various ways, including: trachoma, lymphogranuloma venereum, nongonococcal urethritis, cervicitis, salpingitis...
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    Trachoma, commonly known as spectral orchids, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orchidaceae. Orchids in this genus are epiphytic plants with...
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    Trachoma speciosum, commonly known as the showy spectral orchid, is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid that forms clumps with many thick, cord-like roots...
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    associated with lower odds of trachoma. Access to sanitation was associated with 15 percent lower odds of active trachoma and 33 percent lower odds of...
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    Trachoma papuanum, commonly known as the yellow spectral orchid, is an epiphytic or lithophytic clump-forming orchid with a between three and six thick...
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  • College of Ophthalmologists to establish the National Trachoma and Eye Health Program (the "Trachoma Program") 1976–1978, with funding by the Federal Government...
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    Trachoma stellatum, commonly known as the starry spectral orchid, is an epiphytic or lithophytic clump-forming orchid with many thick roots. It has between...
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    lifelong companion of Helen Keller. At the age of five, Sullivan contracted trachoma, an eye disease, which left her partially blind and without reading or...
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    the eyeball. It results either from disease (conjunctival sequelae of trachoma) or trauma. Cicatricial pemphigoid and, in severe cases, rosacea may cause...
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    Health (NIH), she was moved to Rolla, Missouri, to begin to investigate the trachoma pandemic that was particularly widespread in the region of Alabama, Missouri...
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  • if untreated. Mild cases may not require treatment. Repeated cases of trachoma infection may cause trichiasis. Posterior misdirection of normal lashes...
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  • Ypsolopha Species: Y. senex Binomial name Ypsolopha senex (Walsingham, 1889) Synonyms Trachoma senex Walsingham, 1889 Cerostoma koebelella Dyar, 1900...
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    name is still attached to some disease signs, e.g., von Arlt's line in trachoma and his son, Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt, the younger, was also an ophthalmologist...
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  • Ypsolophidae Genus: Ypsolopha Species: Y. walsinghamiella Binomial name Ypsolopha walsinghamiella (Busck, 1903) Synonyms Trachoma walsinghamiella Busck, 1903...
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    treatment. This includes cataracts, the infections river blindness and trachoma, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, uncorrected refractive errors, and some...
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  • His activity as a consulting ophthalmologist to the Northern Territory Trachoma and Eye Health Programme continued until 1992. From 1944 to 1946 he studied...
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    in both eyes, this is known as "bilateral entropion". Repeated cases of trachoma infection may cause scarring of the inner eyelid, which may cause entropion...
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    infection or helminthiasis), cholera, hepatitis, polio, schistosomiasis, and trachoma, to name just a few. A range of sanitation technologies and approaches...
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    Infections Trachoma Onchocerciasis...
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    Infections Trachoma Onchocerciasis...
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    Infections Trachoma Onchocerciasis...
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  • Project Lions Eye Health Program (LEHP, pronounced "leap") River blindness/Trachoma SightFirst China Action Sight for Kids Other sight programs Core 4 Preschool...
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    treatment and the elimination of blinding diseases, such as onchocerciasis, trachoma, glaucoma and cataracts as well as formal ophthalmological training. The...
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    patient-by-patient basis against the risk of cardiovascular and other adverse effects. Trachoma due to C. trachomatis Uncomplicated skin infections due to S. aureus, S...
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  • eyes; someone whose eyes were milky white from bacterial infections of trachoma or syphilis, cataracts or glaucoma; or the contrast of dark skin tone around...
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    Ypsolopha (redirect from Trachoma (moth))
    Wagler, 1830) Credemnon Wallengren, 1880 Periclymenobius Wallengren, 1880 Trachoma Wallengren, 1880 Pluteloptera Chambers, 1880 Plutelloptera; Chambers, 1880...
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    Infections Trachoma Onchocerciasis...
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