Live trachoma vaccine and topical therapy.

Live trachoma vaccine and topical therapy.

Topical use of terramycin ointment in trachoma.

Material.-The patients were unselected; all the cases of trachoma who attended the Lebanese Red Cross Eye Clinic of Moussaitbeh were included, provided: (a) they did not suffer from any other ophthalmic or debilitating disease; (b) they attended the clinic regularly; (c) they had not had other treatment for trachoma for at least 6 months; (d) they used the ointment given to them regularly, twic...

A live-attenuated chlamydial vaccine protects against trachoma in nonhuman primates

Blinding trachoma is an ancient neglected tropical disease caused by Chlamydia trachomatis for which a vaccine is needed. We describe a live-attenuated vaccine that is safe and efficacious in preventing trachoma in nonhuman primates, a model with excellent predictive value for humans. Cynomolgus macaques infected ocularly with a trachoma strain deficient for the 7.5-kb conserved plasmid present...

Monovalent Live-Virus Horse-Sicknes Vaccine

African Horse-Sickness Live and Killed Virus Tissue Culture Vaccine