Over the last 40 years, evidence has accumulated to suggest the ubiquitous presence of infections with intracellular bacteria of the genus Chlamydia in different livestock species. Different methods to clinical specimens substantiated such widespread, but mostly clinically unapparent, presumably low-level infections. In this initial epidemiological study, we addressed the question of chlamydial...

PURPOSE To evaluate to effect of experimental dry eye on ocular surface apoptosis. METHODS Aqueous tear production and clearance were inhibited by systemic administration of scopolamine and exposure to an air draft for 12 days in 4- to 6-week-old 129SvEv/CD-1 mixed white mice. Eyes and ocular adnexa were excised, cryosectioned, and evaluated for apoptosis by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transfer...

Conjunctival biopsy and ultrastructural examination of conjunctival nerves, showing the presence of spheroids within axons, led to the confirmation of the diagnosis of infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy in two children with progressive mental deterioration. Conjunctival biopsy, which is simple to perform, even in young children, and does not require general anaesthesia or admission to hospital, is...

There has been no published investigation into the reasons why some patients with severe trachomatous conjunctival scarring develop entropion and trichiasis while others do not. In a population of leprosy patients with severe trachomatous conjunctival scarring the authors found that lagophthalmos correlated with the absence of trichiasis and entropion. We suggest that orbicularis oculi muscle f...

As previously described (Mann, Greer, Perret, and McLean, 1960), a human volunteer was experimentally infected with a West Australian strain of trachoma virus. After the successive appearance of conjunctival hyperaemia, pre-auricular adenitis, tarsal follicles, epithelial keratitis, papillary hypertrophy, and pannus, treatment was commenced on the 31st day after infection. This report completes...

PURPOSE To determine the clinical significance of postoperative conjunctival inflammation noted at the third or fourth week after intraoperative application of mitomycin C and amniotic membrane transplantation for pterygium. METHODS This retrospective study included 27 eyes of 23 patients with primary (n = 12) or recurrent (n = 15) pterygia. All cases were operated by extensive removal of sub...

OBJECTIVES To describe a microsurgical approach to a selective pedunculated conjunctival flap for the treatment of chronic corneal ulceration with or without corneal perforation, and to present the results of 50 consecutive cases. DESIGN Retrospective, noncomparative case series and case reports. Patients All patients who had microsurgical conjunctival flap procedures for the treatment of chr...