Tuberculous uveitis: Distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the retinal pigment epithelium

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1777-1779

  Rao, Narsing A ^a   Saraswathy, Sindhu ^b   Smith, Ronald E ^b  

^a DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR; GENOMIC DNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CHOROIDITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIRISAWA UVEITIS; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MICRODISSECTION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS; UVEITIS;

DNA, BACTERIAL; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PANUVEITIS; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM OF EYE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULOSIS, OCULAR;

EID: 33845508028     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.124.12.1777     Document Type: Article

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