Ocular Whipple's disease: Earlier definitive diagnosis

Ophthalmology

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 2225-2231

  Chan, Roxanne Y ^a   Yannuzzi, Lawrence A ^b   Foster, C Stephen ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EYE DISEASE; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT PLANNING; VISION; VITREOUS BODY;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTIONS; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; VITREOUS BODY; WHIPPLE DISEASE;

EID: 0035188907     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(01)00818-1     Document Type: Article

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