Trachoma Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors in The Gambia and Tanzania: Baseline Results of a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

• Emma M. Harding-Esch ,

  * E-mail: emma.harding-esch@lshtm.ac.uk

  Affiliation Clinical Research Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Tansy Edwards,

  Affiliation Clinical Research Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Harran Mkocha,

  Affiliation Kongwa Trachoma Project, Kongwa, Tanzania

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• Beatriz Munoz,

  Affiliation Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Martin J. Holland,

  Affiliations Clinical Research Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

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• Sarah E. Burr,

  Affiliations Clinical Research Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council Laboratories, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

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• Ansumana Sillah,

  Affiliation National Eye Care Programme, Gambian Department of State for Health and Social Welfare, Banjul, The Gambia

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• Charlotte A. Gaydos,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Dianne Stare,

  Affiliation Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• David C. W. Mabey,

  Affiliation Clinical Research Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Robin L. Bailey,

  Affiliation Clinical Research Unit, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Sheila K. West,

  Affiliation Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• for the PRET Partnership