Trachoma and the need for a coordinated community-wide response: a case-based study.

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Published in PLoS Med on February 28, 2006

Authors

Heathcote R Wright1, Jill E Keeffe, Hugh R Taylor

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, WHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention of Blindness, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. h.wright2@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au

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