Rapid detection of fungal keratitis with DNA-stabilizing FTA filter paper

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1905-1910

  Menassa, Nardine ^a,b   Bosshard, Philipp P ^c   Kaufmann, Claude ^c   Grimm, Christian ^c   Auffarth, Gerd U ^b   Thiel, Michael A ^a,c  

^a LUZERNER KANTONSSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; ASPERGILLUS TERREUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DNA STABILIZING FTA FILTER PAPER; EGYPT; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATOMYCOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORNEA ULCER; FILTRATION; FUNGAL EYE INFECTION; FUNGUS; GENETICS; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYCOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

FUNGAL DNA;

AGED; CORNEAL ULCER; DNA, FUNGAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FILTRATION; FUNGI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; NUCLEIC ACID AMPLIFICATION TECHNIQUES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 77951219882     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3737     Document Type: Article

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