Role of Molecular Diagnostics in Ocular Microbiology

Current Ophthalmology Reports

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 181-189

  Taravati, Parisa ^a   Lam, Deborah ^a   Van Gelder, Russell N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Glaucomatocyclitic crisis; Keratitis; Ocular infection; Polymerase chain reaction; Retinitis; Toxoplasmosis; Uveitis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931561511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21674868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40135-013-0025-1     Document Type: Article

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