Fungal keratitis : Pathogenesis, diagnosis and prevention

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As a kind of serious, potentially sight-threatening corneal infections with poor prognosis, fungal keratitis can bring a heavy economic burden to patients and seriously affect the quality of life, especially those in developing countries where fungal keratitis is more prevalent. Typical clinical features include immune rings, satellite lesions, pseudopods, hypha moss, hypopyon and endothelial plaques. The ideal therapeutic effects could not be achieved by current treatments for many reasons. Therefore, under the current status, understanding the pathogenesis, early diagnosis and prevention strategies might be of great importance. Here, in this review, we discuss the recent progresses that may advance our understanding of pathogenesis, early diagnosis and prevention of fungal keratitis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:138

Enthalten in:

Microbial pathogenesis - 138(2020) vom: 10. Jan., Seite 103802

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Niu, Lingzhi [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Zhiming [VerfasserIn]
Yin, Yuan [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Lixia [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Longfei [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Yajuan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biomarkers
Diagnosis
Fungal keratitis
Journal Article
Pathogenesis
Prevention
Review

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Date Completed 15.10.2020

Date Revised 15.10.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.micpath.2019.103802

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM302332502