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SUBMITTER: Baldwin A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5462575 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baldwin Angela A Ryner Alexander M AM Tadesse Zerihun Z Shiferaw Ayalew A Callahan Kelly K Fry Dionna M DM Zhou Zhaoxia Z Lietman Thomas M TM Keenan Jeremy D JD
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20170601 6
AbstractWe evaluated a new trachoma scarring ranking system with potential use in clinical research. The upper right tarsal conjunctivas of 427 individuals from Ethiopian villages with hyperendemic trachoma were photographed. An expert grader first assigned a scar grade to each photograph using the 1981 World Health Organization (WHO) grading system. Then, all photographs were ranked from least (rank = 1) to most scarring (rank = 427). Photographic grading found 79 (18.5%) conjunctivae without s ...[more]