Российский офтальмологический журнал (Oct 2018)

The Role of Human Herpesvirus-6 (HHV-6) in General Pathology and Ocular Inflammatory Disorders

  • G. I. Krichevskaya

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21516/2072-0076-2016-9-1-98-104
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 98 – 104

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The paper summarizes current data on HHV-6: prevalence, modes of transmission, clinical manifestations of the primary infection and the reactivation of chronic infection, the role played in the pathogenesis of lymphoproliferative diseases, malignant tumors, CNS, DRESS-syndrome, inflammatory diseases of the eye (keratitis, uveitis, retinitis, optic neuritis) in children and adults, the methods of laboratory diagnosis and treatment // Russian Ophthalmological Journal, 2016; 1: 98-104.

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