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Assessment of a Novel Approach to Identify Trichiasis Cases Using Community Treatment Assistants in Tanzania

BACKGROUND: Simple surgical intervention advocated by the World Health Organization can alleviate trachomatous trichiasis (TT) and prevent subsequent blindness. A large backlog of TT cases remain unidentified and untreated. To increase identification and referral of TT cases, a novel approach using...

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Autores principales:	Greene, Gregory S., West, Sheila K., Mkocha, Harran, Munoz, Beatriz, Merbs, Shannath L.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Public Library of Science 2015
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4676626/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26658938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004270

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