Serological and polymerase chain reaction-based analysis of aqueous humour samples in patients with AIDS and necrotizing retinitis

AIDS

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1091-1099

  Verbraak, Frank D ^a,c   Galema, Monique ^a   Van Den Horn, G Hans ^a   Bruinenberg, Marcel ^b   Luyendijk, Leny ^b   Danner, Sven A ^a   Kijlstra, Aize ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

AIDS; Intraocular antibody production; Necrotizing retinitis; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS DNA;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; ANTIBODY TITER; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA NECROSIS; RETINITIS; SEROLOGY; TOXOPLASMA GONDII;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS RETINITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA; RETINITIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS;

EID: 0029810096     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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