First evidence of an endogenous Spiroplasma sp. infection in humans manifesting as unilateral cataract associated with anterior uveitis in a premature baby

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 348-353

  Lorenz, Birgit ^a   Schroeder, Josef ^b   Reischl, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Institute of Pathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPHOTERICIN; AMPICILLIN; ATROPINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; NEOMYCIN; POLYMYXIN B; PREDNISONE; SODIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE; STEROID; TOBRAMYCIN SULFATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CATARACT; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; INFLAMMATION; IRIDOCYCLITIS; LENS; LENSECTOMY; LUNG DYSPLASIA; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOPLASMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PANOPHTHALMITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROLENTAL FIBROPLASIA; SPIROPLASMA; TISSUE CULTURE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

BASE SEQUENCE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPIROPLASMA; UVEITIS, ANTERIOR; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 0036938138     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0453-3     Document Type: Article

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