Eye Manifestations of Intrauterine Infections and Their Impact on Childhood Blindness

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 95-111

  Mets, Marilyn Baird ^a   Chhabra, Manpreet Singh ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

congenital; cytomegalovirus; eye; herpes; lymphocytic choriomeningitis; rubella; systemic; toxoplasmosis; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ALPHA INTERFERON; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; FOLINIC ACID; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; IDOXURIDINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PENICILLIN G; PROCAINE PENICILLIN; PYRIMETHAMINE; RIBAVIRIN; RUBELLA VACCINE; SULFADIAZINE; TRIFLURIDINE; VIDARABINE;

BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLINDNESS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHORIORETINITIS; CHORIORETINOPATHY; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EYE DISEASE; HERPES; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; KERATITIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MICROPHTHALMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RUBELLA; RUBELLA VIRUS; SYPHILIS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS MENINGITIS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS;

ADULT; CHICKENPOX; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTIONS; EYE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RUBELLA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 40749161922     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2007.12.003     Document Type: Review

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