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New test for infection that causes blindness could be more effective than current detection method

ct trachoma control in Africa. It will help us become more targeted in our approach--saving time and money." (Quote by e-mail; does not appear in published paper)

In an accompanying Comment, Hugh Taylor and Heathcote Wright from the University of Melbourne, Australia state: "We know that grading is quick, cheap, and reliable. We know it correlates with severity of disease, development of scarring, and ultimately progression to blindness. More work is needed to establish whether the new point-of-care test for infection will be more useful than clinical grading in the targeting and monitoring of SAFE-based programmes for trachoma control."

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