Editing Chlamydia (section)

===Eye disease===
{{Main|Trachoma}}
[[File:SOA-conjunctivitis.jpg|thumb|Conjunctivitis due to chlamydia]]
[[Trachoma]] is a chronic [[conjunctivitis]] caused by ''Chlamydia trachomatis''.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|title=Medical-surgical nursing : assessment and management of clinical problems| vauthors = Lewis SM |others=Bucher, Linda; Heitkemper, Margaret M. (Margaret McLean); Harding, Mariann|isbn=978-0-323-32852-4|edition=10th|location=St. Louis, Missouri|oclc=944472408|year = 2017}}</ref> It was once the leading cause of blindness worldwide, but its role diminished from 15% of blindness cases by trachoma in 1995 to 3.6% in 2002.<ref name="WHO1995">{{cite journal | vauthors = Thylefors B, Négrel AD, Pararajasegaram R, Dadzie KY | title = Global data on blindness | journal = Bulletin of the World Health Organization | volume = 73 | issue = 1 | pages = 115–121 | year = 1995 | pmid = 7704921 | pmc = 2486591 | url = http://whqlibdoc.who.int/bulletin/1995/Vol73-No1/bulletin_1995_73(1)_115-121.pdf | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080625212421/http://whqlibdoc.who.int/bulletin/1995/Vol73-No1/bulletin_1995_73(1)_115-121.pdf | archive-date = 2008-06-25 }}</ref><ref name="WHO2002">{{cite journal | vauthors = Resnikoff S, Pascolini D, Etya'ale D, Kocur I, Pararajasegaram R, Pokharel GP, Mariotti SP | title = Global data on visual impairment in the year 2002 | journal = Bulletin of the World Health Organization | volume = 82 | issue = 11 | pages = 844–851 | date = November 2004 | pmid = 15640920 | pmc = 2623053 | hdl = 10665/269277 }}</ref> The infection can be spread from eye to eye by fingers, shared towels or cloths, coughing and sneezing and eye-seeking flies.<ref name="LancetTrachoma">{{cite journal | vauthors = Mabey DC, Solomon AW, Foster A | title = Trachoma | journal = Lancet | volume = 362 | issue = 9379 | pages = 223–229 | date = July 2003 | pmid = 12885486 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)13914-1 | s2cid = 208789262 }}</ref> Symptoms include [[Pus|mucopurulent]] ocular discharge, irritation, redness, and lid swelling.<ref name=":0" /> Newborns can also develop chlamydia eye infection through childbirth (see below). Using the SAFE strategy (acronym for surgery for [[trichiasis|in-growing]] or [[entropion|in-turned]] lashes, [[antibiotics]], facial cleanliness, and environmental improvements), the [[World Health Organization]] aimed (unsuccessfully) for the global elimination of trachoma by 2020 (GET 2020 initiative).<ref name="GET2020">[[World Health Organization]]. [https://www.who.int/blindness/causes/trachoma/en/index.html Trachoma] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021121158/http://www.who.int/blindness/causes/trachoma/en/index.html |date=2012-10-21 }}. Accessed March 17, 2008.</ref><ref name="LancetSAFE">{{cite journal | vauthors = Ngondi J, Onsarigo A, Matthews F, Reacher M, Brayne C, Baba S, Solomon AW, Zingeser J, Emerson PM | title = Effect of 3 years of SAFE (surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and environmental change) strategy for trachoma control in southern Sudan: a cross-sectional study | journal = Lancet | volume = 368 | issue = 9535 | pages = 589–595 | date = August 2006 | pmid = 16905023 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69202-7 | s2cid = 45018412 }}</ref> The updated World Health Assembly neglected tropical diseases road map (2021–2030) sets 2030 as the new timeline for global elimination.<ref>{{cite web |title=Trachoma |url=https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/trachoma |access-date=2023-06-27 |website=www.who.int |language=en}}</ref>