Systemic immunity in herpetic keratitis.
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Systemic immunity in herpetic keratitis.
The importance of specific immunity, especially cell-mediated, in resistance to herpes simplex disease is well documented, and animal experiments show that immune responses to previous herpetic infection can give considerable protection against reinfection in epithelial keratitis. Since susceptibility to stromal herpetic keratitis is probably determined in part by the extent of virus proliferat...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.65.2.82