Volume 9, Number 5, May 2003

Eliminating Trachoma in Areas with Limited Disease

Bruce D. Gaynor,* Yinghui Miao,* Vicky Cevallos,* Hem Jha,† JSP Chaudary,† Ramesh Bhatta,† Susan Osaki-Holm,* Elizabeth Yi,* Julius Schachter,* John P. Whitcher,* and Thomas Lietman*
*University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA; and †Geta Eye Hospital, Geta, Nepal

Figure. The prevalence of clinically active trachoma (gray curve) and ocular chlamydial infection, as determined by DNA amplification tests (black curve, with 95% confidence intervals due to stratified sampling) in children 1–10 years of age in a village in Western Nepal over time. All children were examined at each visit, so no sampling confidence interval is indicated. Likewise, conjunctivae of all children were swabbed for evidence of infection at the May 2001 visit.

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