Helicobacter pylori infection as an environmental familial clustering risk factor for primary open-angle glaucoma

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 296-297

  Kountouras, Jannis ^a   Zavos, Christos ^a   Grigoriadis, Nikolaos ^a   Deretzi, Georgia ^a   Katsinelos, Panagiotis ^a   Tzilves, Dimitrios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY;

AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BLINDNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HEREDITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LETTER; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PARKINSONISM; PATHOGENESIS; PEPTIC ULCER; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; STOMACH BIOPSY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS; FAMILY HEALTH; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 42449133361     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2008.01729.x     Document Type: Letter

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