Trachoma Through History

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Journal Int Ophthalmol

Specialty Ophthalmology

Date 1988 Jan 1

PMID 3065271

Citations 3

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Abstract

History of 'ophthalmia' is as old as history itself; no race or community is immune to it. There were times when blinding trachoma took a form of disastrous epidemics. The historical and recent literature are reviewed in this paper.

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