An improved technique for the diagnosis of viral retinitis from samples of aqueous humor and vitreous

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 231, Issue 9, 1993, Pages 508-513

  Garweg, Justus ^a   Fenner, Thomas ^b   Böhnke, Matthias ^a   Schmitz, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Tropeninstitut ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; VIRUS DNA;

AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EYE DISEASE; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS; SALIVA ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; URINALYSIS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VITREOUS BODY;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AQUEOUS HUMOR; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS RETINITIS; DNA PROBES; DNA, VIRAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GENES, VIRAL; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0027371192     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00921115     Document Type: Article

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