Infectious background of patients with a history of acute anterior uveitis

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1012-1016

  Huhtinen, Minna ^a   Laasila, K ^a   Granfors, K ^b   Puolakkainen, M ^a   Seppala I ^a   Laasonen, L ^a   Repo, H ^a   Karma, A ^a   Leirisalo Repo, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IRIDOCYCLITIS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RECURRENT INFECTION; SALMONELLA; SEROPREVALENCE; YERSINIA;

EID: 0036839213     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.61.11.1012     Document Type: Article

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