Adenovirus advances: New diagnostic and therapeutic options

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 290-293

  Kaufman, Herbert E ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Dept of Ophthalmol Pharmacol and Exp Therapeut and Microbiol Immunol and Parasitol   (United States)

Author keywords

adenovirus; diagnostic tests; ganciclovir; herpes simplex virus

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; GANCICLOVIR; POVIDONE IODINE; TRIFLURIDINE;

ADENOVIRUS; ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; ANTIBODY LABELING; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EYE INFECTION; HERPES CONJUNCTIVITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX KERATITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KERATITIS; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; VIRAL CONJUNCTIVITIS; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADENOVIRUS INFECTIONS, HUMAN; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CONJUNCTIVITIS, VIRAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; GANCICLOVIR; HUMANS;

EID: 79959224706     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: 15317021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICU.0b013e3283477cb5     Document Type: Article

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