No association between Helicobacter pylori infection or CagA-bearing strains and glaucoma

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 223-226

  Kurtz, Shimon ^a,b   Regenbogen, Michael ^a,b   Goldiner, Ilana ^a   Horowitz, Noya ^a   Moshkowitz, Menachem ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Glaucoma; Helicobacter pylori; Risk factors; Seroepidemiologic studies

Indexed keywords

CAGA PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GONIOSCOPY; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 42149098644     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IJG.0b013e31815a34ac     Document Type: Article

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