Trachoma a disease, and program related to it

1. Trachoma

9. Definition of Trachoma
 Trachoma defined
- as chronic specific communicable kind of
keratoconjunctivitis
– caused by chlamydia trachomatis , Bedsonia group of
organism
– primarily involving superficial layer of conjunctiva and
cornea simultaneously
– charecterised by follicles formation, papillary hyperplasia
and pannus formation
– natural resolution of which caused by cicatrization
– involving potentially considerable visual disability.

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