Quantitative polymerase chain reaction for mycobacterium tuberculosis in so-called eales' disease

Ocular Immunology and Inflammation

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 153-157

  Singh, Rishiraj ^a   Toor, Pooja ^a   Parchand, Swapnil ^a   Sharma, Kusum ^a   Gupta, Vishali ^a   Gupta, Amod ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Anti tuberculosis treatment's retinal vasculitis; Eales' Disease; Intraocular tuberculosis; Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EALES DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MPB64 GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UVEITIS; VITREOUS BODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL VASCULITIS; TUBERCULOSIS, OCULAR; UVEITIS; VITREOUS BODY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860502458     PISSN: 09273948     EISSN: 17445078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09273948.2012.658134     Document Type: Article

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