Abstract:
:The authors present a polymerase chain reaction method for rapid and direct diagnosis of herpetic intraocular infections using small volume samples of intraocular fluid from 29 patients with various intraocular inflammatory diseases and 24 controls with senile cataract. Of six patients with early acute retinal necrosis from whom aqueous humor was tested, four were found to be positive for the presence of varicella-zoster (VZV) DNA while the other two were positive for the presence of herpes simplex virus (HSV) DNA. One of the patients with HSV DNA had been tested at an extremely early stage, at which time the aqueous humor viral antibody ratio did not predict a specific viral infection. Among four patients with acute retinal necrosis in relatively late stages following treatment with acyclovir from whom vitreous was obtained and tested, only one was found to have the presence of any viral DNA (VZV). On the other hand, the vitreous viral antibody ratio was found to be predictive of VZV infection in all four cases. VZV DNA was also detected in aqueous humor samples from four patients with suspected herpes zoster anterior uveitis, while HSV DNA was found in the aqueous humor of one patient with nonspecific keratouveitis. Neither human cytomegalovirus DNA nor human herpesvirus-6 DNA was detected in any sample included in this study. Finally, Epstein-Barr virus DNA was detected in the aqueous humor of the majority of patients studied and identified in cataract patients as well, suggesting either low specificity of the authors' assay for this virus or ubiquity of this virus in human eyes. In summary, the PCR method proved to be a very useful tool in establishing an etiological diagnosis in patients in the early stages of acute retinal necrosis, and in patients with anterior uveitis due to suspected HSV or VZV infection.
journal_name
Ocul Immunol Inflammjournal_title
Ocular immunology and inflammationauthors
Usui M,Usui N,Goto H,Minoda H,Rai Tdoi
10.3109/09273949309086545subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1993-01-01 00:00:00pages
105-12issue
1-2eissn
0927-3948issn
1744-5078journal_volume
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journal_title:Ocular immunology and inflammation
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doi:10.1080/09273940802553261
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doi:10.3109/09273941003678837
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doi:10.1080/09273940490518757
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journal_title:Ocular immunology and inflammation
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doi:10.3109/09273948.2014.964421
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journal_title:Ocular immunology and inflammation
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
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journal_title:Ocular immunology and inflammation
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/09273948.2019.1704024
更新日期:2020-10-02 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/09273948.2017.1327077
更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2020-08-12 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.3109/09273949509069117
更新日期:1995-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1080/09273948.2016.1196713
更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Ocular immunology and inflammation
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/09273948.2020.1745246
更新日期:2020-11-13 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2016-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2020-08-19 00:00:00
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doi:10.1080/09273940902788221
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2020-08-24 00:00:00
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journal_title:Ocular immunology and inflammation
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:2000-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Ocular immunology and inflammation
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1080/09273948.2018.1449867
更新日期:2019-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2020-09-01 00:00:00
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