Interpretation of intraocular and serum antibody levels in necrotizing retinitis

Retina

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 233-240

  Davis, Janet L ^a   Feuer, William ^a   Culbertson, William W ^a   Pflugfelder, Stephen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute retinal necrosis; Antibody; Aqueous humor; Cytomegalovirus; Diagnostic tests; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Herpes simplex virus; Intraocular fluid; Necrotizing retinitis; Toxoplasmosis; Varicella zoster virus; Vitreous humor

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY TITER; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EYE INFECTION; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; RETINA NECROSIS; RETINITIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VITREOUS BODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS RETINITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, VIRAL; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES ZOSTER OPHTHALMICUS; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; RETINAL NECROSIS SYNDROME, ACUTE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMPLEXVIRUS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0029010067     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: 15392864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006982-199515030-00008     Document Type: Article

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