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Understanding the spatial distribution of trichiasis and its association with trachomatous inflammation-follicular.

Rebecca Mann FlueckigerEmanuele GiorgiJorge CanoMariamo AbdalaOlga Nelson AmielGilbert BaayendaAna BakhtiariWilfrid BatchoKamal Hashim BennawiMichael DejeneBalgesa Elkheir ElshafieAba Ange ElvisMissamou FrançoisAndré GoepoguiKhumbo KaluaBiruck KebedeGenet KifluMichael P MasikaMarilia MassangaieCaleb MpyetJean NdjembaJeremiah M NgondiNicholas OlobioPatrick TuryagumaRebecca WillisSouleymane YeoAnthony W SolomonRachel L Pullan
Published in: BMC infectious diseases (2019)
We find evidence of an association between TF and TT in some parts of Africa. However, our results also suggest the presence of additional, country-specific, spatial risk factors which modulate the variation in TT risk.
Keyphrases
  • risk factors
  • oxidative stress