American Journal of Ophthalmology
Volume 146, Issue 6 , Pages 856-865.e2 , December 2008

Intraocular Inflammation Associated with Ocular Toxoplasmosis: Relationships at Initial Examination

  • Emilio M. Dodds

      Affiliations

    • Consultores Oftalmológicos, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Corresponding Author InformationInquiries to Emilio M. Dodds, Consultores Oftalmológicos, Montevideo 1410, 1018-Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  • Gary N. Holland

      Affiliations

    • Ocular Inflammatory Disease Center, Jules Stein Eye Institute and the Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
    • ,
  • Miles R. Stanford

      Affiliations

    • King's College, St Thomas' Campus, London, United Kingdom
    • ,
  • Fei Yu

      Affiliations

    • Ocular Inflammatory Disease Center, Jules Stein Eye Institute and the Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
    • ,
  • Willie O. Siu

      Affiliations

    • Ocular Inflammatory Disease Center, Jules Stein Eye Institute and the Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
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  • Kayur H. Shah

      Affiliations

    • Ocular Inflammatory Disease Center, Jules Stein Eye Institute and the Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California
    • ,
  • Ninette ten Dam-van Loon

      Affiliations

    • FC Donders Institute of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • Cristina Muccioli

      Affiliations

    • Department of Ophthalmology, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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  • Anna Hovakimyan

      Affiliations

    • Francis I. Proctor Foundation, and the Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
    • Malayan Eye Institute, Yerevan, Armenia
    • ,
  • Talin Barisani-Asenbauer

      Affiliations

    • Universitatsklinik fur Augenheikunde unde Optometrie, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • International Ocular Toxoplasmosis Research Group

,Accepted 3 September 2008.

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American Journal of Ophthalmology
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