eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | trachoma |
| Comorbidity | C0456909|blindness |
| Sentences | 18 |
| PubMedID- 24586120 | The world health organization (who) has endorsed the safe strategy in order to eliminate blindness due to trachoma by 2020 through “surgery,” “antibiotics,” “facial cleanliness,” and “environmental improvement.” while the s and a components have been widely implemented, evidence and specific targets are lacking for the f and e components, of which water, sanitation, and hygiene (wash) are critical elements. |
| PubMedID- 22949801 | blindness associated with trachoma was reported in sahelian areas of cameroon. |
| PubMedID- 21731318 | trachoma, an important cause of blindness in some areas in africa, is also more common in women than in men. |
| PubMedID- 22509129 | (1999) found that trachoma (the leading cause of infectious blindness worldwide) elimination may be feasible by biannual treatment of children with a single dose of azithromycin [22]. |
| PubMedID- 21311668 | blindness due to trachoma and onchocerciasis has decreased significantly and the possibility of the elimination of transmission of these two diseases by the year 2020 is within reach. |
| PubMedID- 24405683 | 83. fry, a.m., jha, h.c., lietman, t. m., chaudhary, j.s.p., bhatta, r.c., elliott, j., hyde, t., schuchat, a., gaynor, b., dowell, s.f., adverse and beneficial secondary effects of mass treatment with azithromycin to eliminate blindness due to trachoma in nepal. |
| PubMedID- 21034473 | There are currently 8.2 million people worldwide with trichiasis, the stage of trachoma that leads to irreversible blindness [60]. |
| PubMedID- 22792383 | A polymorphism that results in decreased expression of the mmp9 gene is associated with decreased scar formation and blindness in patients with trachoma eye infection [28]. |
| PubMedID- 25404022 | Infection of the eye can result in trachoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness in the world. |
| PubMedID- 24244768 | Two further studies from nigeria and australia [11], [33] (table 2) were also identified: the nigerian study reported the proportion of blindness due to trachoma in a national survey of blindness and visual impairment. |
| PubMedID- 24625539 | trachoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness, is targeted for “elimination as a public health problem” by the year 2020. national programs are implementing the recommended strategy of surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and environmental improvements (safe) to meet this target. |
| PubMedID- 20360858 | Serovars a–c lead to trachoma, the main cause of preventable blindness worldwide. |
| PubMedID- 23391797 | However, prevalence of blindness attributed to trachoma was 0.39 per cent in 19896. sporadic studies conducted in primary schools of delhi in 1999 and 2004 reported that trachoma was the most common cause of ocular morbidity amongst the school going children78. |
| PubMedID- 24358381 | For example, trachoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness in the world, currently impairs the sight of over 8 million people and costs approximately $2.9 billion in lost productivity each year (7, 16). |
| PubMedID- 23584647 | Introduction: because of the availability of modern health facilities and moderately easy access to health services in the last 25 years, the blindness due to cataract and trachoma is expected to decline in nepal. |
| PubMedID- 19692356 | As a result, the national blindness control programme of cameroon instituted a trachoma elimination programme using the safe strategy. |
| PubMedID- 24346557 | The survey provides a baseline for evaluating planned interventions aimed at achieving the goal of global certification of elimination of trachoma as a cause of blindness in brazil by 2020. |
| PubMedID- 20686616 | A smaller proportion of the cases of blindness were attributable to trachoma (1.7%) compared with the results of a previous study (13.4%) [9]. |
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