Real-time polymerase chain reaction and intraocular antibody production for the diagnosis of viral versus toxoplasmic infectious posterior uveitis

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 249, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1837-1846

  Errera, Marie Hélène ^a   Goldschmidt, Pablo ^a   Batellier, Laurence ^a   Degorge, Sandrine ^a   Héron, Emmanuel ^a   Laroche, Laurent ^a   Sahel, José Alain ^a   Westcott, Mark ^b   Chaumeil, Christine ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER NATIONAL D OPHTALMOLOGIE DES QUINZE VINGTS   (France)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Goldmann Witmer coefficient; Herpesvirus; PCR; Retinitis; Toxoplasmosis; Uveitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIBODY PRODUCTION; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CHORIORETINITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE DURATION; EYE INFECTION; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HERPES VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMOSIS; UVEITIS; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS GENOME; VITREOUS BODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; AQUEOUS HUMOR; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, VIRAL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EYE INFECTIONS, VIRAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HERPESVIRIDAE; HERPESVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS, OCULAR; UVEITIS, POSTERIOR; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 84856237651     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-011-1724-7     Document Type: Article

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