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The Prevalence of Blinding Trachoma in Northern States of Sudan

BACKGROUND: Despite historical evidence of blinding trachoma, there have been no widespread contemporary surveys of trachoma prevalence in the northern states of Sudan. We aimed to conduct district-level surveys in this vast region in order to map the extent of the problem and estimate the need for...

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Autores principales:	Hassan, Awad, Ngondi, Jeremiah M., King, Jonathan D., Elshafie, Balgesa E., Al Ginaid, Ghada, Elsanousi, Mazin, Abdalla, Zeinab, Aziz, Nabil, Sankara, Dieudonne, Simms, Victoria, Cromwell, Elizabeth A., Emerson, Paul M., Binnawi, Kamal H.
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2011
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3104955/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21655349 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001027

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