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[HLA B27 seems to promote graft failure following penetrating keratoplasties for herpetic corneal scars].
Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft - 1 Aug 2007
Böhringer D, Sundmacher R, Reinhard T
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BACKGROUND: Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is the leading cause of infectious corneal blindness in the developed world. Eighty percent of the general population develop asymptomatic viral latency in the trigeminal ganglion following orofacial inoculation, but only 0.2% of all such orofacial inoculations are followed by recurrent corneal reactivation. Recurrences still threaten graft survival following penetrating...
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