Mapping the global distribution of trachoma.

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Published in Bull World Health Organ on January 30, 2006

Authors

Sarah Polack1, Simon Brooker, Hannah Kuper, Silvio Mariotti, David Mabey, Allen Foster

Author Affiliations

1: Clinical Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England. sarah.polack@1shtm.ac.uk

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