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SUBMITTER: Traore L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5825163 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Traoré Lamine L Dembele Benoit B Keita Modibo M Reid Steven D SD Dembéle Mahamadou M Mariko Bréhima B Coulibaly Famolo F Goldman Whitney W Traoré Dramane D Coulibaly Daouda D Guindo Boubacar B Amon Joseph J JJ Knieriemen Marily M Zhang Yaobi Y
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20180212 2
<h4>Background</h4>In 2009, three years after stopping mass treatment with azithromycin, a trachoma impact survey in four health districts in the Kayes region of Mali found a prevalence of trachomatous inflammation-follicular (TF) among children aged 1 to 9 years of >5% and a trachomatous trichiasis (TT) prevalence within the general population (≥1-year-old) of <1%. As a result, the government's national trachoma program expanded trichiasis surgery and related activities required to achieve trac ...[more]