Differences in the severity of physical signs in the right and left eyes of patients with trachoma in Syria and Burma

A field record card to permit the recording of physical signs separately in the two eyes, in cases of trachoma was produced by WHO in 1967. The card was used to record clinical examinations in a controlled trial in Syria in 1967 and in the running assessment of a trachoma control programme in Burma...

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