Assessment of real-time polymerase chain reaction detection of Acanthamoeba and prognosis determinants of Acanthamoeba keratitis

Ophthalmology

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1111-1119

  Ikeda, Yoshifumi ^a   Miyazaki, Dai ^a   Yakura, Keiko ^a   Kawaguchi, Asako ^a   Ishikura, Ryoko ^a   Inoue, Yoshitsugu ^a   Mito, Tsuyoshi ^b   Shiraishi, Atsushi ^b   Ohashi, Yuichi ^b   Higaki, Shiro ^c   Itahashi, Motoki ^c   Fukuda, Masahiko ^c   Shimomura, Yoshikazu ^c   Yagita, Kenji ^d  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; DNA 16S; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; POLY(HEXAMETHYLENEBIGUANIDE); STEROID; VORICONAZOLE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL KERATITIS; BACTERIAL LOAD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOPLASTY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TROPHOZOITE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; ADULT; CORNEA; CORNEAL ULCER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITE LOAD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84861850364     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.12.023     Document Type: Article

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