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Eye Infections

 
 
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Disease relevance of Eye Infections

 

High impact information on Eye Infections

  • Treatment of vaccinial eye infection with vidarabine [6].
  • When instilled into the conjunctival sac of guinea pigs that had been previously infected and were immune, viable chlamydiae or a Triton X-100-soluble extract of them produced a short-lived (12-48 hr) eye disease indistinguishable clinically and histologically from that observed during primary chlamydial eye infection [7].
  • To evaluate the anti-HSV-1 mechanisms of murine IFN-beta in ocular infection, mice were transduced with an adenoviral vector expressing murine IFN-beta (Ad:IFN-beta) [8].
  • These results support a critical role for B7/CD28 costimulation in susceptibility to P. aeruginosa ocular infection [9].
  • The data show early induction and continued maintenance of IL-12 (p40) mRNA in the cornea and draining lymph node upon ocular infection with HSV [10].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Eye Infections

 

Biological context of Eye Infections

 

Anatomical context of Eye Infections

  • The antibacterial efficacy of oral lomefloxacin has been investigated in a wide variety of infections, including respiratory and uncomplicated and complicated urinary tract infections, obstetric, gynaecological, joint, skin, oral, ear, nose, throat and eye infections [17].
  • Ophthalmologists should be aware that about 50% of preoperative patients without signs of ocular infection may have bacterial growth on the conjunctiva, and that elderly patients with nasolacrimal duct obstruction, dry eye, and recent hospital stays may be carriers of MRSA or MRCNS [18].
 

Gene context of Eye Infections

  • The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of the angiogenic factors macrophage inflammatory protein-2 (MIP-2) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the regulation of corneal neovascularization during P. aeruginosa ocular infection [19].
  • The role of ICAM-2 in P. aeruginosa ocular infection was then addressed through a monoclonal antibody (MAb) blockade of ICAM-2 in infected ICAM-1 KO and WT mice [20].
  • The role of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha)-lymphotoxin signaling in the control of rabies virus ocular infection and inflammatory cell infiltration was assessed using mice lacking the p55 TNF-alpha receptor (p55TNFR(-/-) mice) [3].
  • Neutralizing antibodies to mouse CXCL10 were used to determine the role of CXCL10 during the acute phase of HSV-1 ocular infection [21].
  • In experimental murine eye infections, multiple additions of 5 nM CFTR peptide 103-117 to inocula of either cytotoxic (exoU+) or noncytotoxic P. aeruginosa resulted in large reductions in bacteria in the eye and markedly lessened eye pathology [22].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Eye Infections

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