Eliminating Trachoma in Areas with Limited Disease

Abstract

The common wisdom is that a trachoma program cannot eliminate ocular chlamydia from a community, just reduce infection to a level where there would be minimal blindness. We describe the success of multiple mass antibiotic treatments, demonstrating that complete elimination of infection may be an attainable goal in an area with modest disease.

Keywords

• azithromycin
• chlamydia
• dispatch
• Nepal
• trachoma