Infectious uveitis in Thailand: Serologic analyses and clinical features

Ocular Immunology and Inflammation

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-22

  Sirirungsi, Wasna ^a   Pathanapitoon, Kessara ^b   Kongyai, Natedao ^a   Weersink, Annemarie ^c   De Groot Mijnes, Jolanda D F ^c   Leechanachai, Pranee ^a   Ausayakhun, Somsanguan ^b   Rothova, Aniki ^c  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

HIV; Infection; Serology; Thailand; Uveitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINITIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROPREVALENCE; THAILAND; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMATOSIS; UVEITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGGLUTINATION TESTS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHILD; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS RETINITIS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIRA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; THAILAND; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; UVEITIS;

EID: 67651222022     PISSN: 09273948     EISSN: 17445078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09273940802553816     Document Type: Article

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