Leptospiral Uveitis - There Is More to It Than Meets the Eye!

Zoonoses and Public Health

Volumn 59, Issue SUPPL.2, 2012, Pages 132-141

  Verma, A ^a   Stevenson, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eye diseases; Leptospirosis; Mechanisms of disease; Pathogenesis; Uveitis; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ATROPINE; CYCLOSPORIN A; FLUNIXIN MEGLUMINE; STEROID;

ARTICLE; EQUINE RECURRENT UVEITIS; HORSE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRAL UVEITIS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UVEITIS; VITRECTOMY;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; HUMANS; LEPTOSPIROSIS; UNITED STATES; UVEITIS;

EQUIDAE; LEPTOSPIRA;

EID: 84866031300     PISSN: 18631959     EISSN: 18632378     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1863-2378.2011.01445.x     Document Type: Article

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