Does clinical diagnosis indicate ocular chlamydial infection in areas with a low prevalence of trachoma?

Jocelyn Thein School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA;

Puning Zhao Department of Ophthalmology, Hainan Provincial Hospital, Haikou, Hainan Province, People’s Republic of China;

Hansheng Liu Department of Ophthalmology, Hainan Provincial Hospital, Haikou, Hainan Province, People’s Republic of China;

Jingjing Xu The Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China;

Hem C. Jha Geta Eye Hospital, Geta, Nepal;

Yinghui Miao Department of Ophthalmology and The F.I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, USA;

Louis D. Pizzarello Department of Ophthalmology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA;

Lisa Tapert Helen Keller Worldwide, New York, NY, USA;

Julius Schachter Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco;

Michèle Mabon Department of Ophthalmology and The F.I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, USA;

Susan Osaki-Holm Department of Ophthalmology and The F.I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, USA;

Thomas Lietman Department of Ophthalmology and The F.I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, USA;

Anne Paxton The Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA

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