Optic neuritis associated with chikungunya virus infection in South India

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 125, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1381-1386

  Mittal, Apoorva ^a   Mittal, Saurabh ^a   Bharati, Jayahar ^a   Ramakrishnan, Rengappa ^a   Saravanan, Sankarlingam ^a   Sathe, Padmakar S ^b  

^a ARAVIND EYE HOSPITAL   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; OPTIC NEURITIS; PAPILLITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS INFECTION; VISION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; COLOR PERCEPTION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; EYE INFECTIONS, VIRAL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INDIA; MALE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC NEURITIS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 35348973571     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.125.10.1381     Document Type: Article

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