BLINDING AND NON-BLINDING TRACHOMA - ASSESSMENT OF INTENSITY OF UPPER TARSAL INFLAMMATORY DISEASE AND DISABLING LESIONS

Abstract

A simplified method of evaluating the intensity of active inflammatory disease and the visually disabling lesions of trachoma is presented. Evaluation of the active disease is based on the scoring of clinical signs, lymphoid follicles and papillary hypertrophy. The irreversible lesions of trachoma are classified as conjunctival scarring, trichiasis and/or entropion and corneal scarring.