PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | trachoma |
| Symptom | C0009450|infection |
| Sentences | 18 |
| PubMedID- 21990969 | Clinically, the most relevant aspect of infection with c. trachomatis is its propensity for chronic infection, which may lead to female infertility and to blinding trachoma , 3. |
| PubMedID- 21072225 | Methodology/principal findings: we analysed data on the prevalence of ocular infection with chlamydia trachomatis and of active trachoma disease among 4,436 individuals from two communities in the gambia (west africa) and two communities in tanzania (east africa). |
| PubMedID- 23392481 | infection with c trachomatis in communities with average trachoma rates at 12% to 13% cannot be eliminated before 3 rounds of mda with azithromycin. |
| PubMedID- 21785663 | We report a cluster-randomized trial assessing the effect of intensive latrine promotion on emergence of infection with ocular chlamydia trachomatis after mass treatment with antibiotics.twenty-four communities in goncha seso enesie woreda, amhara regional state, ethiopia, were enumerated, and a random selection of 60 children aged 0- 9 years in each was monitored for clinical signs of trachoma and ocular chlamydial infection at baseline, 12 and 24 months. |
| PubMedID- 23457650 | trachoma results from infection of the conjunctiva with chlamydia trachomatis (ct) and is the commonest infectious cause of blindness worldwide. |
| PubMedID- 26490436 | infection with ocular chlamydia trachomatis (trachoma) remains the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness. |
| PubMedID- 23391797 | Ocular infection with chlamydia trachomatis, especially trachoma, continues to be a major public health problem in many parts of the world. |
| PubMedID- 23785525 | trachoma, which results from infection with a bacterium chlamydia trachomatis(ct), is a leading cause of preventable blindness in the world. |
| PubMedID- 26158574 | Risk of infection with chlamydia trachomatis from migrants to communities undergoing mass drug administration for trachoma control. |
| PubMedID- 24009792 | After three rounds of mda, infection with c. trachomatis and trachoma had declined significantly from baseline but no communities had treatment stopped. |
| PubMedID- 24586120 | Although infection with c. trachomatis is a more objective measure of trachoma and is likely associated with more temporal access to wash, it was the outcome of interest in only four of our 15 meta-analyses, as most studies reported only on clinically evident signs of tf/ti, which could be the result of past infection and more related to cumulative exposure to risk factors. |
| PubMedID- 26501198 | Background: ocular infection with chlamydia trachomatis can cause trachoma, which is the leading cause of blindness due to infection worldwide. |
| PubMedID- 23717703 | Risk factors for infection with trachoma include crowding and household clustering; insufficient access to water, poor sanitation and facial hygiene, and young children as reservoir of infection . |
| PubMedID- 26029217 | Apart from genital tract infection, serovars a–c of c. trachomatis cause trachoma, which is the leading cause of infectious blindness worldwide that affects about 84 million people with active disease. |
| PubMedID- 21483713 | Repeated ocular infection with chlamydia trachomatis causes chronic conjunctival inflammation (active trachoma), which leads to conjunctival scarring. |
| PubMedID- 25404022 | Recent reports have shown that infection with trachoma organisms lacking the cryptic chlamydial plasmid is highly attenuated in macaque eyes, a relevant experimental model of human trachoma infection. |
| PubMedID- 25954753 | infection with trachoma is most commonly found in children and with repeated reinfection it can lead to scarring complications and blindness in late childhood and adult life. |
| PubMedID- 23559832 | infection with trachoma is most commonly found in children. |
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