Raman Microspectroscopy Analysis in the Treatment of Acanthamoeba Keratitis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Rusciano, Giulia ^a   Capriglione, Paola ^a   Pesce, Giuseppe ^a   Del Prete, Salvatore ^a   Cennamo, Gilda ^a   Di Cave, David ^b   Cerulli, Luciano ^b   Sasso, Antonio ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLY(HEXAMETHYLENEBIGUANIDE);

ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL CULTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ERADICATION; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA KERATITIS; AMEBICIDES; BIGUANIDES; CONTACT LENSES; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84882649015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072127     Document Type: Article

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