Ocular pathogen or commensal: A PCR-based study of surface bacterial flora in normal and dry eyes

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5616-5623

  Graham, Joanna E ^a   Moore, Jonathan E ^a,b   Jiru, Xu ^c   Moore, John E ^a,c   Goodall, Edward A ^a   Dooley, James S G ^a   Hayes, Velma E A ^a   Dartt, Darlene A ^d   Downes, C Stephen ^a   Moore, Tara C B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL GROUP OF HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c BELFAST CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL EYE INFECTION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CELL DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMMENSAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRY EYE; ERWINIA; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; GOBLET CELL; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLAND; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS; SAMPLING; BACTERIUM; CELL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONJUNCTIVA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CELL COUNT; CONJUNCTIVA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRY EYE SYNDROMES; FEMALE; GOBLET CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MEIBOMIAN GLANDS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 38549117885     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0588     Document Type: Article

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