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The presentation and incidence of paratrachoma in adults

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2010

Andrew B. Tullo ,
Shirley J. Richmond  and
David L. Easty
Andrew B. Tullo
Affiliation:
Bristol Eye Hospital, Lower Maudlin Street, Bristol BS1 2LX
Shirley J. Richmond
Affiliation:
Public Health Laboratory, Bristol BS2 8EL
David L. Easty
Affiliation:
Bristol Eye Hospital, Lower Maudlin Street, Bristol BS1 2LX
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Thirteen definite and 3 probable cases of chlamydial eye infection were diagnosed in young adults attending the Bristol Eye Hospital between June 1978 and May 1980, an incidence of about 1 case per 44000 per year in the 15 to 44-year-old community served by this hospital, and 1 per 100000 in the total population of this community. These patients presented with a sub-acute follicular conjunctivitis or kerato-conjunctivitis, which had usually been present for several weeks and had often failed to respond to topical chloramphenicol treatment before presentation. Sera obtained from 14 patients all had chlamydial antibody titres of 64 or more. Over the same period of time, an estimated 2500 patients per year from the same community attended the Venereology Department at the Bristol Royal Infirmary with genital chlamydial infections. These figures suggest that chlamydial infection of the eye complicates no more than 1 in 300 chlamydial infections of the genital tract in adults.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 87 , Issue 1 , August 1981 , pp. 63 - 69
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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