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. 1976 Feb 4;198(2):155-9.
doi: 10.1007/BF00410015.

[Diagnosis of herpetic keratitis by immunofluorescence (author's transl)]

[Article in German]
H Freyler, H Hofmann, F Schwab

[Diagnosis of herpetic keratitis by immunofluorescence (author's transl)]

[Article in German]
H Freyler et al. Albrecht Von Graefes Arch Klin Exp Ophthalmol. .

Abstract

Between December 1973 and October 1974 scrapings of the corneal epithelium of 52 patients were examined by immunofluorescence. 41 of these corneal scrapings were suitable for examination. In 31 of 38 cases with the clinical diagnosis of a herpes simplex keratitis virus-specific antigen was found by means of immunofluorescence. The procedure takes only a few hours, and shows with 81,5% correct diagnoses a high reliability; scrapings of patients without herpetic affection never revealed a positive result. In 3 of 4 cases of deep herpetic keratitis, in which the herpetic etiology could only be supposed clinically, the diagnosis was proved by immunofluorescence.

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