Trachoma : a blinding scourge from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century / Hugh R. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Hugh R.
Date:
2008
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About this work

Publication/Creation

East Melbourne, Vic. : Centre for Eye Research Australia, 2008.

Physical description

[xxi], 282 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-271) and index.

Contents

Trachoma is an ancient disease and weapon of mass destruction - Trachoma development, institutions and the 20th century -- Clinical diagnosis -- Laboratory diagnosis -- Biology of chlamydia -- The epidemiology of trachoma and reinfection -- Pathogenesis -- Trachoma vaccine development -- Will trachoma disappear before we eliminate it?

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    History of Medicine
    FRV /TAY
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ISBN

  • 9780975769591
  • 0975769596