Use of polymerase chain reaction in detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA from vitreous sample of Eales' disease

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Editor,—Eales’ disease, first described by Henry Eales in 1880 is a primary retinal perivasculitis that predominantly affects the peripheral retina of young and otherwise healthy adults in the age group 15–40 years. Of the several aetiologies proposed, most favoured are tuberculosis and hypersensitivity to tuberculoprotein.1 Since polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers for the insertion sequence of IS6110...

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