Neonatal ophthalmia in the developing wo
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Lieve Fransen; Volker Klauss
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Article
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1988
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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In the 19th century, the incidence of neonatal conjunctivitis varied between 1 and 14% in Europe, and the disease was a main cause of blindness at that time. Since then the epidemiology of ophthalmia neonatorum (ON) has changed and Chlamydia trachomatis is more frequent than Neisseria gonorrhoeae. B