Chlamydophila psittaci is viable and infectious in the conjunctiva and peripheral blood of patients with ocular adnexal lymphoma: Results of a single-center prospective case-control study

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1089-1093

  Ferreri, Andrés J M ^a   Dolcetti, Riccardo ^b   Dognini, Giuseppina P ^a   Malabarba, Lucia ^a   Vicari, Nadia ^c   Pasini, Elisa ^b   Ponzoni, Maurilio ^a   Cangi, Maria Giulia ^a   Pecciarini, Lorenza ^a   Resti, Antonio Giordano ^a   Doglioni, Claudio ^a   Rossini, Silvano ^a   Magnino, Simone ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA LOMBARDIA E DELL EMILIA ROMAGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chlamydia; Epidemiology; MALT lymphoma; Ocular adnexal lymphoma; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; BACTERIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD DONOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EYE INFECTION; EYE TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; OCULAR ADNEXAL MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MONONUCLEAR CELL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORBIT TUMOR; PATHOGENICITY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL, MARGINAL ZONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 47249097096     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.23596     Document Type: Article

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