Collection of corneal impression cytology directly on a sterile glass slide for the detection of viral antigen: An inexpensive and simple technique for the diagnosis of HSV epithelial keratitis – A pilot study

BACKGROUND: Herpes simplex keratitis (HSK) is a sight threatening ocular infection and occurs worldwide. A prompt laboratory diagnosis is often very useful. Conventional virology techniques are often expensive and time consuming. We describe here a highly economical, simple, rapid and sensitive tech...

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Autores principales: Athmanathan, Sreedharan, Bandlapally, Sesha Reddy, Rao, Gullapalli N
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2001
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC57753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11592921
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-1-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC57753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11592921
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-1-3

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