Update on ocular tuberculosis

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 551-556

  Yeh, Steven ^a   Sen, Hatice N ^b   Colyer, Marcus ^c   Zapor, Michael ^d   Wroblewski, Keith ^d  

^a EMORY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Ocular Trauma Service and Vitreo Retinal Surgery   (United States)

^d WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV; latent tuberculosis infection; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; PCR; tuberculin skin testing

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; VASCULOTROPIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; AQUEOUS HUMOR; BACTERIAL LOAD; CATARACT; CHOROIDITIS; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EALES DISEASE; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; IRIS RUBEOSIS; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; NONHUMAN; OCULAR SURFACE DISEASE; OCULAR TUBERCULOSIS; OPTIC NERVE ATROPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ISCHEMIA; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETINA VASCULITIS; REVIEW; SARCOIDOSIS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOMA; TUBERCULOSIS; VASCULITIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS, OCULAR;

EID: 84867787689     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: 15317021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICU.0b013e328358ba01     Document Type: Review

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