Detection of mycobacterial DNA with polymerase chain reaction in eye discharge and gastric juices in a case of scleritis

Journal of Japanese Ophthalmological Society

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 97-101

  Tanemoto, Keiko ^a   Ishikawa, Hiroshi ^a   Kigasawa, Kazuteru ^a   Obazawa, Hajime ^a   Fusegawa, Hisae ^a   Miyachi, Hayato ^a   Ando, Yasuhiko ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atypical Mycrobacterium; Polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Scleritis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCLERITIS; STOMACH JUICE; UVEITIS;

AGED; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; EYE; FEMALE; GASTRIC JUICE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIA, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCLERITIS; TUBERCULOSIS, OCULAR;

EID: 0031013578     PISSN: 00290203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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