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Corneal blindness in the developing world: The role of prevention strategies

2024-03-05

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Corneal blindness is an important contributor to the burden of global blindness and has a greater prevalence in low-income countries of the developing world where resources and infrastructure are limited. The causes of corneal blindness too are different from high-income countries and include infectious keratitis, ocular trauma, and xerophthalmia. Persons with these indications tend to have unfavourable outcomes a...

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137ebfb3-38be-589a-bba3-632c65b4a8f5
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10.12688/f1000research.141037.2
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