Ophthalmology
Volume 117, Issue 10 , Pages 1930-1936 , October 2010

Corneal Sensation and Subbasal Nerve Alterations in Patients with Herpes Simplex Keratitis: An In Vivo Confocal Microscopy Study

Presented in part at: Association of Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, April 2007, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and the Ocular Microbiology and Immunology Group Annual Meeting, November 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Received 8 February 2010 ,Revised 2 July 2010 ,Accepted 8 July 2010.

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 Manuscript no. 2010-429.

 Financial Disclosure(s): Supported by the National Institutes of Health (grant nos.: NIH K12-EY016335 and NIH K24-EY019098), Bethesda, Maryland; the New England Corneal Transplant Research Fund, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Falk Medical Research Foundation, Chicago, IIlinois. The funding organizations had no role in the design or conduct of this research.

 The author(s) have no proprietary or commercial interest in any materials discussed in this article.

PII: S0161-6420(10)00746-3

doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.07.010

Ophthalmology
Volume 117, Issue 10 , Pages 1930-1936 , October 2010

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