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Differential Diagnosis of Infectious Retinitis

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Retinitis is a inflammation of the retina secondary to bacterial, virus, parazitic or fungal infection. The most common cause of retinitis of over the world is the Toxoplasma gondii. Retinitis secondary to each pathogen has a different clinical picture and the recognition of these signs are fundamental for the correct treatment.

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  1. National Institute of Infectious Diseases – INI, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation – FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    André Luiz Land Curi

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  1. Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India

    Vishali Gupta

  2. Spencer Center for Vision Research, Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Quan Dong Nguyen

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital Sorbonne University, Paris, France

    Phuc LeHoang

  4. Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India

    Aniruddha Agarwal

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Curi, A.L.L. (2020). Differential Diagnosis of Infectious Retinitis. In: Gupta, V., Nguyen, Q., LeHoang, P., Agarwal, A. (eds) The Uveitis Atlas. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2410-5_31

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