Chlamydial infection: The link with ocular adnexal lymphomas

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 658-669

  Ferreri, Andrés J M ^a   Dolcetti, Riccardo ^b   Magnino, Simone ^c   Doglioni, Claudio ^a   Ponzoni, Maurilio ^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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; ANTHRACYCLINE; CHLORAMBUCIL; CHLORAMPHENICOL; IBRITUMOMAB TIUXETAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; RITUXIMAB;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BLEEDING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOSIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFICACY; GENE EXPRESSION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INFECTION RISK; MARGINAL ZONE LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; OCULAR ADNEXAL MARGINAL ZONE LYMPHOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDOPHILA PSITTACI; EYE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL; LYMPHOMA, B-CELL, MARGINAL ZONE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONOCYTES; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70350783855     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2009.147     Document Type: Review

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