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. 2015 Dec 3;9(12):e0004071.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004071. eCollection 2015 Dec.

Trachoma and Yaws: Common Ground?

Anthony W Solomon  1 , Michael Marks  2   3 , Diana L Martin  4 , Alexei Mikhailov  1 , Rebecca M Flueckiger  5 , Oriol Mitjà  6   7 , Kingsley Asiedu  1 , Jean Jannin  1 , Dirk Engels  1 , David C W Mabey  2   3
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Trachoma and Yaws: Common Ground?

Anthony W Solomon et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. .
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The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Figures

Fig 1
Fig 1. Categorization of endemicity of trachoma and yaws at country level, worldwide, 2013.
For the purposes of this figure, a country is categorized as endemic for a disease based on its status in the Global Health Observatory database (http://www.who.int/gho/en/) as at 15 December 2014. A country is “endemic for blinding trachoma” in this database if it contains one or more administrative areas in which the most recent population-based prevalence data held by the Global Atlas of Trachoma (www.trachomaatlas.org) show the prevalence of TF in 1- to 9-year-olds to be ≥10% and/or the prevalence of TT in the whole population to be ≥0.1%. Papua New Guinea is additionally categorized as “endemic for blinding trachoma” on this map on the basis of preliminary survey work carried out by the Ministry of Health.
Fig 2
Fig 2. First-level administrative areas of countries in West and Central Africa co-endemic or potentially co-endemic for trachoma and yaws, based on reported clinical data on yaws in 2013 [23] and the most recent population-based prevalence data on TF held by the Global Atlas of Trachoma (www.trachomaatlas.org) as at 15 December 2014.
Fig 3
Fig 3. First-level administrative areas of countries in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific co-endemic or potentially co-endemic for trachoma and yaws, based on reported clinical data on yaws in 2013 [23] and the most recent population-based prevalence data on TF held by the Global Atlas of Trachoma (www.trachomaatlas.org) as at 15 December 2014.
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