Novel diagnosis of fungal endophthalmitis by broad-range real-time PCR detection of fungal 28S ribosomal DNA

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 250, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1877-1883

  Ogawa, Manabu ^a   Sugita, Sunao ^a   Watanabe, Ken ^b   Shimizu, Norio ^b   Mochizuki, Manabu ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endophthalmitis; Fungi; Ocular fluids; Polymerase chain reaction

Indexed keywords

28S RIBOSOMAL DNA; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; FUNGAL DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANDIDA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FUNGAL ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UVEITIS; VITREOUS BODY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AQUEOUS HUMOR; DNA, FUNGAL; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUNGI; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; MYCOSES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 84871330284     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-012-2015-7     Document Type: Article

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