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A hospital based study on the prevalence of conjunctivitis due to Chlamydia trachomatis.

@article{Malathi2003AHB,
  title={A hospital based study on the prevalence of conjunctivitis due to Chlamydia trachomatis.},
  author={Jambulingam Malathi and Hajib Narahari Rao Madhavan and K. Lily Therese and Patricia R Joseph},
  journal={The Indian journal of medical research},
  year={2003},
  volume={117},
  pages={
          71-5
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:10520838}
}
A significant decrease in the prevalence of adult chlamydial conjunctivitis has occurred in the 10-year period among patients reporting to the ophthalmic hospitals in Chennai and PCR using cryptic plasmid primers was found to be the most sensitive method to detect C. trachomatis in patients with conjunctvitis.
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