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. 1988;12(1):9-14.
doi: 10.1007/BF00133774.

Trachoma through history

K M al-Rifai  1
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Trachoma through history

K M al-Rifai. Int Ophthalmol. 1988.

Abstract

History of 'ophthalmia' is as old as history itself; no race or community is immune to it. There were times when blinding trachoma took a form of disastrous epidemics. The historical and recent literature are reviewed in this paper.

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