Comparison of the sensitivity of a 24 h-shell vial assay, and conventionaltube culture, in the isolation of Herpes simplex virus - 1 From cornealscrapings

BMC Clinical Pathology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 1-5

  Athmanathan, Sreedharan ^a   Bandlapally, Sesha Reddy ^a   Rao, Gullapalli N ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

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Indexed keywords

24 HOUR SHELL VIAL ASSAY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORNEA; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; HERPES SIMPLEX KERATITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INOCULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VERO CELL; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 34248394696     PISSN: 14726890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6890-2-1     Document Type: Article

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