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  1. Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-?) is an important pro-inflammatory cytokine associated with a variety of ocular diseases. The currently available TNF-? inhibitors are etanercept, infliximab, adalimumab, goli...

    Authors: Isabel Pascual-Camps, Pablo Hernández-Martínez, Laura Monje-Fernández, Rosa Dolz-Marco, Roberto Gallego-Pinazo, Lihteh Wu, J Fernando Arévalo and Manuel Díaz-Llopis

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:26

    Content type: Review

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  2. The aims of the study are to assess the prevalence of bacteremia during dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) and to assess whether there is a need for post-operative prophylaxis. Prospective interventional study of 52 ...

    Authors: Mohammad Javed Ali, Anuradha Ayyar, Swapna R Motukupally, Savitri Sharma and Milind N Naik

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:27

    Content type: Original research

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  3. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the retinal and choroidal thickness of the macular region in patients with unilateral relentless placoid chorioretinitis (RPC) and macular involvement. Patients diagnos...

    Authors: Rosa Dolz-Marco, Álvaro Rodríguez-Ratín, Pablo Hernández-Martínez, Isabel Pascual-Camps, María Andreu-Fenoll and Roberto Gallego-Pinazo

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:24

    Content type: Original research

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  4. Ocular and extraocular immune-mediated phenomena are known to occur following febrile illness. Vasculitis, retinitis and neurosensory detachment are not well-recognized sequelae of typhoid fever.

    Authors: Nidhi Relhan, Avinash Pathengay, Thomas Albini, Krishna Priya, Subhadra Jalali and Harry W Flynn

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:23

    Content type: Brief report

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  5. Ocular complications of herpes zoster ophthalmicus (HZO) may lead to substantial visual impairment. The purpose of this study was to characterize and analyze ocular involvement and visual outcome of HZO in pat...

    Authors: Rim Kahloun, Sonia Attia, Bechir Jelliti, Ahmed Zakaria Attia, Sana Khochtali, Salim Ben Yahia, Sonia Zaouali and Moncef Khairallah

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:25

    Content type: Original research

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  6. Intravitreal antibiotics are the mainstay of treatment in the management of infectious endophthalmitis. Basic knowledge of the commonly used intravitreal antibiotics, which includes their pharmacokinetics, hal...

    Authors: Medikonda Radhika, Kopal Mithal, Abhishek Bawdekar, Vivek Dave, Animesh Jindal, Nidhi Relhan, Thomas Albini, Avinash Pathengay and Harry W Flynn

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:22

    Content type: Review

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  7. Post-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis is a well-known immunologic cutaneous reaction. There are few case reports of ocular leishmaniasis. It is a sight-threatening condition that needs to be rapidly recognized a...

    Authors: Simon Couture, Rupesh Agrawal, Kate Woods, Diana Lockwood, Carlos E Pavesio and Peter K F Addison

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:21

    Content type: Brief report

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  8. Choroidal thickness (CTh) and choroidal vessel diameter (VD) in the Haler’s layer were evaluated as markers of inflammatory insult in non-infectious uveitis (NIU). Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography ...

    Authors: Millena G Bittencourt, Saleema Kherani, Daniel A Ferraz, Mehreen Ansari, Humzah Nasir, Yasir J Sepah, Mostafa Hanout, Diana V Do and Quan Dong Nguyen

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:14

    Content type: Original research

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  9. Understanding the changes that occur in the choroid is of paramount importance in various uveitis entities. B-scan ultrasonography and indocyanine green angiography can be used to study choroid. Currently, spe...

    Authors: Padmamalini Mahendradas, Sumukh Madhu, Ankush Kawali, Indu Govindaraj, Poornachandra B Gowda, Anand Vinekar, Naren Shetty, Rohit Shetty and Bhujang K Shetty

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:18

    Content type: Original research

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  10. The aim of this study was to identify the main features of a cohort of Caucasian patients with idiopathic (I) and systemic disease-associated (SDA) autoimmune uveitis (AU) who were followed up at a single tert...

    Authors: Marcella Prete, Silvana Guerriero, Rosanna Dammacco, Maria Celeste Fatone, Angelo Vacca, Francesco Dammacco and Vito Racanelli

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:17

    Content type: Original research

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  11. Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease is a systemic autoimmune disorder against melanocytes. Recent studies have identified multiple genetic factors that might be associated with the pathogenesis of VKH disease. ...

    Authors: Joanne YW Ng, Fiona OJ Luk, Timothy YY Lai and Chi-Pui Pang

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:20

    Content type: Review

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  12. Silicone oil continues to be an important aid in retinal detachment surgery. We report a case in which disparate responses to silicone oil were noted in the conjunctiva and intraocularly. Intraocularly, the oi...

    Authors: Aubrey L Gilbert, Frederick A Jakobiec, James Chodosh and Dean Eliott

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:15

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  14. A 21-year-old female patient had chorioretinitis in the left eye which relapsed while being on anti-tubercular treatment and oral corticosteroids leading to blindness and the loss of the left eye.

    Authors: Manisha Agarwal, Vivek Jha and Jyotirmay Biswas

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:13

    Content type: Brief report

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  15. Orbital tuberculosis (OTb) is rare and may be regarded as a manifestation of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. We report an interesting case series of six patients with varied presentations of orbital and adnexal t...

    Authors: Kalpana Babu, Moupia Mukhopadhyay, Soumya S Bhat and JT Chinmayee

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:12

    Content type: Original research

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  16. Candida dubliniensis is a recently described opportunistic fungal pathogen that rarely infects the eye. Reported cases of C. dubliniensis endophthalmitis have been of endogenous etiology and demonstrated recovery...

    Authors: Brian Douglas McMillan, Gary James Miller and John Nguyen

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:11

    Content type: Brief report

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  17. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay can be a useful method for definitive diagnosis in paucibacillary infections such as ocular tuberculosis (TB). In this study, we have evaluated factors affecting PCR outco...

    Authors: Praveen Kumar Balne, Rohit Ramesh Modi, Nuzhat Choudhury, Neha Mohan, Manas Ranjan Barik, Tapas Ranjan Padhi, Savitri Sharma, Satya Ranjan Panigrahi and Soumyava Basu

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:10

    Content type: Original research

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  18. The aim of this study was to determine the clinical significance of posterior choroidal thickness and vascular changes in the convalescent stage of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease (VKH). Macular spectral domain o...

    Authors: Hossein Nazari, Amirhossein Hariri, Zhihong Hu, Yanwei Ouyang, SiriniVas Sadda and Narsing A Rao

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:9

    Content type: Original research

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  19. Sarcoidosis is an idiopathic, multi-system, granulomatous disease with well-described ocular manifestations. However, other uveitic etiologies can manifest in a similar fashion, and ocular disease may precede ...

    Authors: Kelly M Bui, Jose M Garcia-Gonzalez, Sarju S Patel, Amy Y Lin, Deepak P Edward and Debra A Goldstein

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:8

    Content type: Original research

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  20. We report the fundus autofluorescence (FAF), spectral-domain optical coherence tomographic (SD-OCT), microperimetric, and multifocal electroretinographic (mfERG) findings before, during, and after successful t...

    Authors: Mariko Egawa, Yoshinori Mitamura, Yuki Hayashi, Kentaro Semba and Takeshi Naito

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:7

    Content type: Brief report

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  21. Detection of choroidal inflammation in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease is still a challenge. Progression to sunset glow fundus has been observed despite apparent good clinical control of inflammation. Indoc...

    Authors: Viviane M Sakata, Felipe T da Silva, Carlos E Hirata, Walter Y Takahashi, Rogerio A Costa and Joyce H Yamamoto

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:6

    Content type: Brief report

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  22. The objective of this study was to evaluate the microbiologic spectrum and antimicrobial susceptibility of isolates in post-traumatic endophthalmitis and compare with our earlier published report. A retrospect...

    Authors: Animesh Jindal, Avinash Pathengay, Kopal Mithal, Subhadra Jalali, Annie Mathai, Rajeev Reddy Pappuru, Raja Narayanan, Jay Chhablani, Swapna R Motukupally, Savitri Sharma, Taraprasad Das and Harry W Flynn Jr

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:5

    Content type: Brief report

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  23. Snow banking is usually a term coined to describe the accumulation of vitreous exudates over the pars plana and the peripheral retina in pars planitis. Snow banking is very rare in tubercular intermediate uvei...

    Authors: Kalpana Babu and Soumya S Bhat

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:4

    Content type: Letter to the Editor

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  24. Ocular tuberculosis (TB) can affect nearly every ocular tissue, leading to a variety of vision-threatening clinical manifestations. The goal of this study is to estimate the degree, duration, and causes of vis...

    Authors: Soumyava Basu, Sirajum Monira, Rohit Ramesh Modi, Nuzhat Choudhury, Neha Mohan, Tapas Ranjan Padhi, Praveen Kumar Balne, Savitri Sharma and Satya Ranjan Panigrahi

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:3

    Content type: Original research

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  25. We describe the spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) findings in three patients with acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis (ASPPC). The SD-OCT images demonstrate the pathologic ch...

    Authors: Bryn M Burkholder, Theresa G Leung, Trucian A Ostheimer, Nicholas J Butler, Jennifer E Thorne and James P Dunn

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:2

    Content type: Brief report

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  26. Neonatal conjunctivitis or ophthalmia neonatorum (ON) is an acute bacterial conjunctivitis contracted by newborns during delivery. In non-industrialized countries, detection of the etiological agent is difficu...

    Authors: Isabel Alexandre, Nestor Cortes, Mar Justel, Itziar Fernández, Raul Ortíz de Lejarazu and J Carlos Pastor

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2014 4:1

    Content type: Brief report

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  27. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the microbiological spectrum and antimicrobial susceptibility in patients with scleral buckle infection. Medical records of all the patients diagnosed as buckle...

    Authors: Jay Chhablani, Sameera Nayak, Animesh Jindal, Swapna R Motukupally, Annie Mathai, Subhadra Jalali, Rajiv Reddy Pappuru, Savitri Sharma, Taraprasad Das, Harry W Flynn Jr. and Avinash Pathengay

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:67

    Content type: Brief report

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  28. Recent studies have shown that the recently identified organism Candida dubliniensis is less pathogenic than the more common Candida albicans. Due to its rare nature, C. dubliniensis has been previously reported ...

    Authors: Thomas P Moloney and Joseph Park

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:66

    Content type: Original research

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  29. The aim of this study is to report a case of sympathetic ophthalmia with sensorineural hearing loss following penetrating trauma. This is an interventional case report. A 23-year-old male presented with bilate...

    Authors: Ramesh Venkatesh, Manisha Agarwal, Vidya Janaki Ramesh, Shalini Singh, Meha Kantha and Jyotirmay Biswas

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:65

    Content type: Brief report

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  30. The purpose of this study was to describe comorbidities, healthcare costs, and resource utilization among patients with chronic non-infectious uveitis initiating corticosteroid, immunosuppressants, or biologics.

    Authors: David S Chu, Scott J Johnson, Usha G Mallya, Matthew R Davis, Rachael A Sorg and Mei Sheng Duh

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:64

    Content type: Original research

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  31. The time courses of retinal and choroidal thickness changes in dengue fever-associated maculopathy are not known. We measured central macular thickness (CMT), parafoveal retinal thickness (PRT), and subfoveal ...

    Authors: Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Hidenori Takahashi, Mikiko Kanno, Yasuo Noda and Yujiro Fujino

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:63

    Content type: Brief report

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  32. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the prevalence, antimicrobial susceptibilities, and visual acuity outcome of acute-onset postoperative Gram-negative bacterial endophthalmitis cases resistant to both c...

    Authors: Animesh Jindal, Avinash Pathengay, Manav Khera, Subhadra Jalali, Annie Mathai, Rajeev Reddy Pappuru, Raja Narayanan, Savitri Sharma, Taraprasad Das and Harry W Flynn Jr

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:62

    Content type: Original research

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  33. Macular edema is a common complication of uveitis and represents a therapeutic challenge, especially in children. Recently, intravitreal dexamethasone implants have been shown to decrease intraocular inflammat...

    Authors: Serge Bourgault, Maryam Aroichane, Leah A Wittenberg, Andréane Lavallée and Patrick E Ma

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:61

    Content type: Brief report

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  34. The purpose of the current study was to analyze risk factors, clinical features, and treatment outcomes in patients with endogenous fungal endophthalmitis with yeast and mold infections. For this retrospective...

    Authors: Jayanth Sridhar, Harry W Flynn Jr, Ajay E Kuriyan, Darlene Miller and Thomas Albini

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:60

    Content type: Original research

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  35. Cases of patients with primary intraocular lymphoma (PIOL) were retrospectively analyzed to describe the longitudinal intra-retinal morphological changes in PIOL as visualized on images obtained by spectral do...

    Authors: Hyun Soo Jang, Yasir J Sepah, Raafay Sophie, Millena G Bittencourt, Daniel Ferraz, Mostafa Hanout, Hongting Liu, Diana V Do and Quan Dong Nguyen

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:59

    Content type: Original research

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  36. Enhanced-depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT) provides high-resolution imaging of the choroid. Herein, we report multimodal imaging, including EDI-OCT, of a case of sarcoid choroidal granulomas.

    Authors: Yasha S Modi, Aliza Epstein, Swetangi Bhaleeya, J William Harbour and Thomas Albini

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:58

    Content type: Brief report

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  37. The aim of this study is to exclusively report the microbiological spectrum of lacrimal abscess and the antibiotic sensitivity patterns of the organisms. Retrospective interventional study on 112 eyes of 112 p...

    Authors: Mohammad Javed Ali, Swapna R Motukupally, Surbhi D Joshi and Milind N Naik

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:57

    Content type: Original research

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  39. The aim of this study is to report two interesting cases of cytomegalovirus (CMV) anterior uveitis following topical prostaglandin analogue administration for glaucoma. Two retrospective case studies are prese...

    Authors: Kalpana Babu and Gowri Jaydev Murthy

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:55

    Content type: Brief report

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  40. We present a case of a patient initially presenting with multifocal choroiditis (MFC) in one eye. She subsequently developed lesions most consistent with punctate inner choroidopathy (PIC) in the contralateral...

    Authors: Michelle V Carle, David S Boyer and Pouya N Dayani

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:54

    Content type: Original research

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  41. Sarcoidosis is a multisystem inflammatory disease of unknown etiology affecting multiple organs. Earlier reports suggested that sarcoidosis was a disease of the developed world. However, recent reports suggest...

    Authors: Kalpana Babu

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:53

    Content type: Review

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  42. Since the introduction of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART), AIDs related morbidity and mortality have declined. However, the advent of HAART brought the new problem of immune recovery inflammatory ...

    Authors: Supinda Leeamornsiri, Pitipol Choopong and Nattaporn Tesavibul

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:52

    Content type: Brief report

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  43. The purpose of the current study was to report the microbiology, risk factors, and treatment outcomes in patients with delayed-onset endophthalmitis associated with corneal suture infections. For this retrospe...

    Authors: Christopher R Henry, Harry W Flynn Jr, Darlene Miller, Amy C Schefler, Richard K Forster and Eduardo C Alfonso

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:51

    Content type: Original research

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  45. Sympathetic ophthalmia is a rare bilateral granulomatous inflammation that follows accidental or surgical insult to the uvea of one eye. Onset of sympathetic ophthalmia can be insidious or acute, with recurren...

    Authors: Xi K Chu and Chi-Chao Chan

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:49

    Content type: Review

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  46. The purpose of this study is to review the literature on the risk of malignancy in patients with inflammatory eye disease (IED) treated with systemic immunosuppressive (IS) therapy. Relevant databases in trans...

    Authors: William B Yates, Peter J McCluskey and Denis Wakefield

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:48

    Content type: Review

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  47. Collagen cross linking (CXL) of the cornea has been developed recently as a new treatment for multidrug-resistant infectious keratitis. The aim of this study is to summarize the previously published data and e...

    Authors: Jorge L Alio, Alessandro Abbouda, David Diaz Valle, Jose M Benitez del Castillo and Jose A Gegundez Fernandez

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:47

    Content type: Original research

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  48. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the microbiological profile and treatment outcomes of vancomycin-resistant Gram-positive bacterial endophthalmitis. Medical records of all patients with Gram-positive b...

    Authors: Manav Khera, Avinash Pathengay, Animesh Jindal, Subhadra Jalali, Annie Mathai, Rajeev Reddy Pappuru, Nidhi Relhan, Taraprasad Das, Savitri Sharma and Harry W Flynn

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:46

    Content type: Original research

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  50. Endogenous endophthalmitis secondary to Nocardia species is extremely rare but often portends a poor visual prognosis often owing to the advanced nature of disease at presentation and delay in diagnosis. Patients...

    Authors: Megan Scott, Sonia Mehta, Hassan T Rahman, Hans E Grossniklaus and Steven Yeh

    Citation: Journal of Ophthalmic Inflammation and Infection 2013 3:44

    Content type: Brief report

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