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Epidemiology

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Trachoma occurs most often in North Africa and the Middle East. Poverty, dry and sandy conditions, chronic childhood exposure to C. trachomatis (A-C), and lack of access to medical care are contributory factors.

Flies act as vectors transmitting the organisms from infected faeces and from eye to eye.


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