Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Viruses and the eye

  • Richard A. Armstrong

Research output: Contribution to specialist publication or newspaperArticle

Abstract

About 60% of human infections diseases are caused by viruses,including such important diseases as AIDS, polio, rabies and certain forms of cancer. A few groups of viruses are important to optometrists because they either cause a primary eye infection or a systemic viral infection with ocular complications.
Original languageEnglish
Pages35-39
Number of pages5
Volume1998
No.April
Specialist publicationOptometry Today
Publication statusPublished - Apr 1998

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • human infections diseases
  • viruses
  • optometrists
  • primary eye infection
  • systemic viral infection
  • ocular complications

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Viruses and the eye'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this