Browsing Internal Medicine by Subject "Microbial Keratitis, Traditional Eye Medicine, Traditional Healers, Blindness, Uganda"

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    • Traditional eye medicine use in microbial keratitis in Uganda: a mixed methods study 

      Simon Arunga , Allen Asiimwe , Eunice Apio Olet , Grace Kagoro-Rugunda , Bosco Ayebazibwe , John Onyango , Robert Newton , Astrid Leck , David Macleod , Victor H. Hu , Janet Seeley , Matthew J. Burton (The Wellcome Trust, 2019)
      Background: Traditional eye medicine (TEM) is frequently used to treat microbial keratitis (MK) in many parts of Africa. Few reports have suggested that this is associated with a worse outcome. We undertook this large ...