The global burden of trichiasis in 2016.
Rebecca Mann FlueckigerPaul CourtrightMariamo AbdalaAmza AbdouZaid AbdulnafeaTawfik K Al-KhatibKhaled AmerOlga Nelson AmielSossinou AwoussiAna BakhtiariWilfried BatchoAssumpta Lucienne BellaKamal Hashim BennawiSimon J BrookerBrian K ChuMichael DejeneDjore DezoumbeBalgesa Elkheir ElshafieAba Ange ElvisDjouma Nembot FabriceFatma Juma OmarMissamou FrançoisDrabo FrançoisJambi GarapMichael GichangiAndré GoepoguiJaouad HammouBoubacar KadriGeorge KabonaMartin KaboreKhumbo KaluaMathias KamugishaBiruck KebedeKaba KeitaAsad Aslam KhanGenet KifluMakoy YibiGarae MacklineColin MacleodPortia ManangaziraMichael P MasikaMarilia MassangaieTakafira MduluzaNabicassa MenoNicholas MidziAbdallahi Ould MinnihSailesh MishraCaleb MpyetNicholas MuraguriUpendo MwingiraBeido NassirouJean NdjembaCece NiebaJeremiah M NgondiNicholas OlobioAlex PavluckIsaac PhiriRachel PullanBabar QureshiBoubacar SarrDo SeihaGloria Marina Serrano ChávezShekhar SharmaSiphetthavong SisaleumsakKhamphoua SouthisombathGretchen StevensAndeberhan Tesfazion WoldendriasLamine TraoréPatrick TuryagumaRebecca WillisGeorges YayaSouleymane YeoFrancisco ZambroniJialiang ZhaoAnthony W SolomonPublished in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2019)
The 2016 estimate is lower than previous estimates, probably due to more and better data; scale-up of trichiasis management services; and reductions in incidence due to lower active trachoma prevalence.