- ►nih.gov [PDF] PA Thomas - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2003 - Am Soc Microbiol INTRODUCTION....................................................................
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...731 ETIOLOGICAL AGENTS AND LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS OF OPHTHALMIC ... Cited by 104 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 14 versions
PA Thomas - Eye, 2003 - nature.com Observations Fungal infections of the cornea are frequently caused by species of
Fusarium, Aspergillus, Curvularia, and Candida. Trauma is the most important
predisposing cause; ocular and systemic defects and prior application of ... Cited by 68 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
I Doczi, T Gyetvai, L Kredics, E Nagy - Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2004 - filer.case.edu Members of the filamentous fungal genus Fusarium are among the agents most
frequently causing keratomycosis in humans. Fusarium keratitis is most common
among agricultural workers in geographical regions with hot, humid, ... Cited by 15 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►fleyedocs.com [PDF] JJ Gorscak, BD Ayres, N Bhagat, KM … - Cornea, 2007 - journals.lww.com From the *Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, New Jersey Medical
School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ;
†Corneal Service, Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson College, Thomas ... Cited by 15 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
SD Barnes, CH Dohlman, ML Durand - Cornea, 2007 - journals.lww.com Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed of 182 patients (202 eyes)
who received a type 1 (through cornea) or type 2 (through cornea and lid) KPro
between March 1, 1990, and December 31, 2004, and who were followed for at ... Cited by 13 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
M Kumar, NK Mishra, PK Shukla - American journal of ophthalmology, 2005 - Elsevier The DNA samples from corneal scrapings of all the four patients were
successfully amplified by the primer pair ITS1 and ITS2 and
similarity/dissimilarity were established by Jaccard's coefficient. Patient ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - All 19 versions
A Ghosh, S Basu, H Datta, D Chattopadhyay - American Journal of Ophthalmology, 2007 - Elsevier The PCR and rDNA sequencing-based approaches may be useful alternatives to
culture-based techniques for the rapid and sensitive diagnosis of fungal
keratitis. We found that clinically significant pathogenic fungal strains ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - All 16 versions
R Bagyalakshmi, KL Therese, S Prasanna, … - Current Eye Research, 2008 - informahealthcare.com Purpose: To apply Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)-based DNA sequencing targeting
Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) region for identification of non-sporulating
molds (NSM) to species level which formed 12% of ocular isolates of fungi ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
R Bagyalakshmi, KL Therese, HN Madhavan - Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2007 - Medknow The ideal marker to detect a fungal infection should be present in all fungal
genera (but should contain enough internal variation in its sequence to define a
species) and should be a multicopy gene to maximize the sensitivity of ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
N Gupta, R Tandon - Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2008 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov Standard recommended guidelines for diagnosis of infectious keratitis do exist.
Based on an extensive Medline literature search, the various investigative
modalities available for aiding the diagnosis of microbial keratitis have ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - All 6 versions