Sentences with phrase «trachoma infection»

Repeated cases of trachoma infection may cause scarring of the inner eyelid, which may cause entropion.

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Earlier phases of the study have shown it to be effective in treating individual cases of trachoma, and the trial is now looking into what treatment strategies will be required to stop the infection spreading and thereby eradicate the disease within the country.

She runs the Gambian arm of a trial which seeks not just to treat trachoma a bacterial infection that can cause blindness, but to eradicate it from the countries where the study is being run.

Part of the control strategy for trachoma — repeated eye infections caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis — is facial cleanliness.

The findings suggest that measures of facial cleanliness can be added to trachoma surveys in the developing countries where the infection is a public health problem.

An eye infection called trachoma is still common in North Africa and South Asia and this can cause scarring of the inner eyelid, which may cause friction and entropion.