Uveitis: Is ocular toxoplasmosis only a clinical diagnosis?

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 87-89

  Bornand, J E ^a   De Gottrau, P ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antibodies, protozoan; Chorioretinitis; Diagnosis, differential; Eye infection; Toxoplasmosis, ocular; Uveitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UVEITIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CHORIORETINITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RNA, PROTOZOAN; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR; UVEITIS;

EID: 0031054490     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: 14230267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000310765     Document Type: Article

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