Dip-stick test for trachoma control programmes
| Autor: | Heathcote R Wright, Hugh R. Taylor |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Economic growth
National security Sanitation Point-of-Care Systems media_common.quotation_subject Developing country Blindness Hygiene Humans Medicine Industrial Revolution Reagent Strips media_common Trachoma biology business.industry General Medicine medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Anti-Bacterial Agents Test (assessment) Tanzania Optometry business |
| Zdroj: | The Lancet. 367:1553-1554 |
| ISSN: | 0140-6736 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0140-6736(06)68668-6 |
| Popis: | Trachoma was the major blinding scourge in 19th century Europe. Soldiers returning to Europe from the Napoleonic wars in Egypt brought the contagion with them. Infection spread readily among troops living in overcrowded barracks with primitive sanitation. Soldiers on leave or who were sent home spread the infection rapidly to civilians and soon trachoma ran rampant throughout western and central Europe. The disease flourished in the overcrowded cities and slums created by the Industrial Revolution. Trachoma rapidly became an issue for both national security and the economy. However personal and community hygiene standards took more than a century to improve sufficiently to disrupt the easy transmission of secretions from one eye to another and curb trachoma. (excerpt) |
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