Volgens Cook heeft de Londense groep bemoedigende resultaten bereikt. Het is, zegt hij, bovendien helemaal niet nodig Chlamydia trachomatis, de bacterie die trachoma veroorzaakt, compleet uit te ...

Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness in the world today. Long ago eliminated in North America and Europe, the disease is almost unknown, and indeed forgotten, in the West.

"I congratulate the government and people of Burundi and commend them for their hard work and dedication. The elimination of ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal ...

Chlamydia trachomatis causes sexually transmitted infections and the blinding disease trachoma. Current data on C. trachomatis phylogeny show that there is only a single trachoma-causing clade ...

The World Health Organisation has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. The WHO, which ...

Objectives: Trachoma is the leading cause of infectious blindness worldwide. It is known to be highly correlated with poverty, limited access to healthcare services and water. In 2003, the WHO ...

Surveyors were taken hostage in Yemen, accused of being representatives of Dracula in Papua New Guinea, worked in sandstorms and temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius in Ethiopia.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially announced that Burundi has eliminated trachoma as a public health problem, ...