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ArticleBulletin of the World Health Organization2019

Infectious corneal ulceration: a proposal for neglected tropical disease status.

Lawson Ung, Nisha R Acharya, Tushar Agarwal, Eduardo C Alfonso, Bhupesh Bagga, Paulo Jm Bispo, Matthew J Burton, John Kg Dart, Thuy Doan, Suzanne Mj Fleiszig and 32 more

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Article in Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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61citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Corneal collagen cross-linking for bacterial infectious keratitis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020
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  10. Bibliometric analysis and data visualization on drug delivery systems for infectious keratitis.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2026
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  15. Infectious Keratitis Management: 10-Year Update.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
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  17. MoSInternational journal of nanomedicine · 2025
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  18. Evaluation ofCurrent drug delivery · 2025
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1 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

42 authors.

Lawson UngDepartment of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, 243 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114 United States of America (USA).
Nisha R AcharyaFrancis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
Tushar AgarwalDr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Eduardo C AlfonsoBascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA.
Bhupesh BaggaTej Kohli Cornea Institute, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India.
Paulo Jm BispoDepartment of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, 243 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114 United States of America (USA).
Matthew J BurtonInternational Centre for Eye Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, England.
John Kg DartMoorfields Eye Hospital, London, England.
Thuy DoanFrancis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
Suzanne Mj FleiszigSchool of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Prashant GargTej Kohli Cornea Institute, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India.
Michael S GilmoreDepartment of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, 243 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114 United States of America (USA).
David C GritzWilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.
Linda D HazlettDepartment of Ophthalmology, Visual and Anatomical Sciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, USA.
Alfonso IovienoDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Vishal JhanjiDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, USA.
John H KempenMCM Eye Unit, MyungSung Medical School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Cecilia S LeeDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA.
Thomas M LietmanFrancis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
Todd P MargolisDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, USA.
Stephen D McLeodFrancis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
Jod S MehtaSingapore National Eye Centre, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore.
Darlene MillerBascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, USA.
Eric PearlmanInstitute of Immunology, University of California, Irvine, USA.
Lalitha PrajnaAravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India.
N Venkatesh PrajnaAravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India.
Gerami D SeitzmanFrancis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA.
Swapna S ShanbhagTej Kohli Cornea Institute, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India.
Namrata SharmaDr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Savitri SharmaJhaveri Microbiology Centre, L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India.
Muthiah SrinivasanAravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India.
Fiona StapletonSchool of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Donald Th TanSingapore National Eye Centre, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore.
Radhika TandonDr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Hugh R TaylorMelbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Elmer Y TuDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA.
Sonal S TuliDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.
Rasik B VajpayeeRoyal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Russell N Van GelderDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA.
Stephanie L WatsonSave Sight Institute, University of Sydney Medical School, Sydney, Australia.
Michael E ZegansDepartment of Surgery (Ophthalmology), Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, USA.
James ChodoshDepartment of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, 243 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114 United States of America (USA).

Funding

Role of Toll-Like Receptors in Bacterial KeratitisR01EY016058 · NEI · WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY · PI HAZLETT, LINDA D · 2005 to 2023
$6.0M
Fungal virulence factors during corneal infectionsR21EY028677 · NEI · DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK CLINIC · PI FULLER, KEVIN K., ZEGANS, MICHAEL ERIC · 2018 to 2019
$448k
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY016058NEI NIH HHS R21 EY028677
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Global HealthAnti-Bacterial AgentsBacterial InfectionsCorneal UlcerDeveloping CountriesHealth PromotionHumansLeprosyNeglected DiseasesOnchocerciasis, OcularTrachomaAnti-Bacterial Agents

Identifiers

PMID31819296
PMCPMC6883276

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