Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many key neglected tropical disease (NTD) activities have
been postponed. This hindrance comes at a time when the NTDs are progressing towards …

Embryonic retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axons must extend toward and grow through the
optic disc to exit the eye into the optic nerve. In the embryonic mouse eye, we found that …

Optic nerve formation in mouse involves interactions between netrin-1 at the optic disk and
the netrin-1 receptor DCC (deleted in colorectal cancer) expressed on retinal ganglion cell (…

Social media posts regarding measles vaccination were classified as pro-vaccination,
expressing vaccine hesitancy, uncertain, or irrelevant. Spearman correlations with Centers for …

… Children with conjunctivitis are prohibited from attending school, causing parents to miss
work or pay for childcare; a study from 2014 calculated that conjunctivitis has an overall annual …

Purpose Epidemic and seasonal infectious conjunctivitis outbreaks can impact education,
workforce, and economy adversely. Yet conjunctivitis typically is not a reportable disease, …

COVID-19 has disrupted in-clinic perimetry, perhaps permanently. We have co-developed a
visual field test (A) performed on inexpensive virtual reality headsets using an oculo-kinetic …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted planned annual antibiotic mass drug
administration (MDA) activities that have formed the cornerstone of the largely successful …

Background Progress towards elimination of trachoma as a public health problem has been
substantial, but the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disrupted …

Background: A new recombinant subunit vaccine for herpes zoster (HZ or shingles) was
approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration on October 20, 2017 and is …