title: Trachoma through history.
abstract: History of 'ophthalmia' is as old as history itself; no race or community is immune to it. There were times when blinding trachoma took a form of disastrous epidemics. The historical and recent literature are reviewed in this paper.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology College of Medicine, King Saud University Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: al-Rifai
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D008877:Middle East; D014141:Trachoma / Q000266:history* / Q000382:microbiology