Background: Fungal keratitis is a major blinding eye disease found throughout the world,
particularly in developing countries. Given the recent increase in Fusarium keratitis …

Background: Diagnosis of bacterial endophthalmitis (BE) often fails due to:(1) insufficient
volumes of vitreous fluid (VF) and aqueous humour (AH);(2) lack of sensitivity of culture;(3) …

Purpose The aim of this work was to determine the diagnostic performance of real-time
polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and to assess intraocular specific antibody secretion …

Introduction Biological samples, pharmaceuticals or food contain proteins, lipids, polymers,
ammoniums and macromolecules that alter the detection of infectious agents by DNA …

Purpose The prognosis of people infected with Fungi especially immunocompromised
depends on rapid and accurate diagnosis to capitalize on time administration of specific …

Aims: Sensitive diagnosis of Acanthamoeba infections may prevent the clinical condition
from becoming worse. In order to improve the diagnosis tool performances, we studied the …

PURPOSE: The first-line therapy for patients with keratitis is different for bacteria,
filamentous fungi, and yeasts. The timely onset of treatments depends on rapid and accurate …

Background: Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) is a sight-threatening infection, and none of the
current diagnosis tests are able to detect in one reaction low levels of the vast majority of …

Background: Propionibacteriaceae (Propioni) are anaerobic bacteria associated with human
and animal infections. Present-day methods of diagnosis for Propioni are unsatisfactory due …

Purpose: To target the use of two biologic tests in the diagnostic of viral Herpesviridae
anterior uveitis (AC) by the consideration of clinical behavior and delay of intraocular …