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Mechanisms of pathogenesis in herpetic immunoinflammatory ocular lesions
Shilpa P Deshpande1, Mei Zheng, Sujin Lee
1Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, M409, Walter Life Sciences Building, Knoxville, TN 37996-0845, USA.
Veterinary Microbiology
|March 13, 2002
Abstract:
This article reviews possible mechanisms by which ocular infections with herpes simplex virus result in a blinding immunoinflammatory lesion in the cornea. We conclude that this immunoinflammatory response involves multiple immune mechanisms including autoimmunity.