Infectious keratitis is a major global cause of visual impairment and blindness, often affecting
marginalized populations. Proper diagnosis of the causative organism is critical, and …

WHO has recently launched a programme (GET 2020) for the elimination of trachoma, the
leading cause of preventable blindness. GET 2020 has adopted the SAFE strategy, a …

Abstract The World Health Organization has recommended repeat mass drug administration
as part of their global initiative to eliminate blinding trachoma by the year 2020. The efficacy …

tau-Crystallin has been a major component of the cellular lenses of species throughout
vertebrate evolution, from lamprey to birds. Immunofluorescence analysis of the embryonic …

OBJECTIVES: This study tested the hypothesis, first proposed by Chaussinand, that
individual-level immunity acquired from exposure to tuberculosis may have contributed to …

Background The World Health Organization has recommended three rounds of mass drug
administration (MDA) with antibiotics in districts where the prevalence of follicular trachoma …

Background/aims New antibiotic agents and changing susceptibility patterns may have
changed the empirical treatment of bacterial keratitis. Our objective in this study was to …

Purpose To determine if there is a benefit to adjuvant intrastromal voriconazole (ISV)
injections for primary treatment of filamentous fungal keratitis. Design Outcome-masked …

We determined whether patients with chronic conjunctivitis in whom direct fluorescent
antibody (DFA) tests revealed genus-specific chlamydial antigens (but not species-specific …

Purpose To compare the performance of a neural network in identifying visual field defects
with the performance of other available algorithms. Methods A feed-forward neural network …