Molecular screening of donor corneas for fungi before excision

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2578-2583

  Kercher, L ^a   Wardwell, S A ^a   Wilhelmus, K R ^a   Mitchell, B M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DONOR; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION PREVENTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0034798576     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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