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Corneal Buttons Obtained From Patients With HSK Harbor High Copy Numbers of the HSV Genome
1 Feb 2007
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PURPOSE: To detect herpes simplex virus (HSV) genome in the cornea, we sampled the limbal corneas and scleras of the imported eye bank eyes and recipient's corneal buttons and quantitated HSV genome in them by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). METHODS: Forty-four recipient corneas including 7 corneas with and 37 corneas without a history of herpetic keratitis, 70 eye bank donor limbal corneas, and 35 eye...
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