A national survey integrating clinical, laboratory, and WASH data to determine the typology of trachoma in Nauru

• Published in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases Vol. 16; no. 4; p. e0010275
• Main Authors: Lynch, Kathleen D, Apadinuwe, Sue Chen, Lambert, Stephen B, Hillgrove, Tessa, Starr, Mitchell, Catlett, Beth, Ware, Robert S, Cama, Anasaini, Webster, Sara, Harding-Esch, Emma M, Bakhtiari, Ana, Butcher, Robert, Cunningham, Philip, Martin, Diana, Gwyn, Sarah, Solomon, Anthony W, Garabwan, Chandalene, Kaldor, John M, Vaz Nery, Susana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 01.04.2022; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Age; Antibodies; Biology and Life Sciences; Care and treatment; Child; Children; Chlamydia; Chlamydia trachomatis; Cicatrix - epidemiology; Consent; Control; Data collection; Diagnosis; Epidemiology; Ethics; Gender; Health aspects; Households; Humans; Hygiene; Identification and classification; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Infant, Newborn, Diseases - epidemiology; Infections; Inflammation; Laboratories; Medicine and Health Sciences; Nucleic Acids; People and Places; Population; Prevalence; Public health; Research and Analysis Methods; Risk factors; Sample size; Sanitation; Scars; Sexually transmitted diseases; STD; Surveying; Testing; Trachoma; Trachoma - diagnosis; Trachoma - epidemiology; Transmission; Trichiasis - epidemiology; Tropical diseases; Typology; Viral antibodies; Water; Nauru

The epidemiology of trachoma in several Pacific Islands differs from other endemic settings, in that there is a high prevalence of clinical signs of trachoma, particularly trachomatous inflammation-follicular (TF), but few cases of trichiasis and limited evidence of ocular chlamydial infection. This...