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The Burden of Trachoma in South Sudan: Assessing the Health Losses from a Condition of Graded Severity

INTRODUCTION: Trachoma is a disease that can lead to visual impairment and ultimately blindness. Previous estimates of health losses from trachoma using the Global Burden of Disease methodology have not, however, included the stage prior to visual impairment. We estimated the burden of all stages of...

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Autores principales: Gouda, Hebe, Powles, John, Barendregt, Jan, Emerson, Paul, Ngondi, Jeremiah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22413025
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0001538