Abstract
Trachoma, an infectious keratoconjunctivitis due to chlamydial infection, was one of the earliest recognized clinical entities. References to it have been noted in Egyptian papyri and in Greco-Roman medical treatises. Since those times it has remained a most important eye infection, and indeed trachoma is still a major cause of blindness in rural communities, affecting probably 6 million people (Dawson).
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Reeve, P., Hanna, L. (1987). Introduction. In: Reeve, P. (eds) Chlamydial Infections. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71202-9_1
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