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Mycoplasmal Diseases | Bhatti, M Tarik | "Mollicutes (trivial name, mycoplasmas) are the smallest free-living, replicating organisms known to humans, measuring 150 to 250 nm in diameter with a genome size ranging from 577 kilobase pairs (kbp) to 2200 kbp (compared with Escherichia coli, which has a diameter of 1000 nm and a genome size of ... |
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Disorders of Neuromuscular Transmission | Preston C Calvert, MD | "To understand the pathophysiology of the defects in myasthenia gravis (MG) and other disorders that damage the neuromuscular junction (NMJ), it is necessary to have some knowledge of the basic events of neuromuscular transmission." |
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Principles and Techniques of the Examination of the Visual Sensory System | Michael Wall, MD, University of Iowa, Department of Neurology and Ophthalmology; Johnson, Chris A | "This chapter describes the most common subjective and objective tests used in the afferent visual system examination." |
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Protozoa and Protozoal Diseases | Wayne T. Cornblath, MD, Clinical Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Professor, Department of Neurology, University of Michigan | "Protozoa (from the Latin words proto, meaning ‘‘first,'' and zoon, meaning ‘‘animal'') are acellular or unicellular organisms that are found all over the world in moist soil, fresh water, and oceans." |
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Retroviruses and Retroviral Diseases | Lynn K. Gordon, MD, UCLA | "The retroviridae family encompasses a group of viruses in which the replicative life cycle requires reverse transcription of the viral ribonucleic acid (RNA) genome into doublestranded deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) (1)." |
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Sarcoidosis | Steven R. Hamilton, MD | "Sarcoidosis is a systemic disorder of unknown etiology that has significant ocular, neurologic, and neuro-ophthalmologic manifestations." |
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Topical Diagnosis of Acquired Optic Nerve Disorders | Alfredo A. Sadun, MD, PhD, Flora L. Thornton Chair, Professor of Ophthalmology and Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine at USC; Agarwal, Madhu R | Distinguishing an optic neuropathy from retinal disease. |
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Topical Diagnosis of Tumors | Nancy J. Newman, MD, Emory Eye Center | "In this chapter, we consider the symptoms and signs that may occur in patients with ocular, orbital, intracranial, and spinal cord tumors." |
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Vasculitis | Steven L. Galetta, MD, NYU Langone | "In this chapter, we consider disorders that produce neuroophthalmologic symptoms and signs from inflammation of blood vessels." |