THE ROLE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN OPHTHALMIC PATHOLOGY HERPESVIRUS

The goal was to establish a place of herpesviruses (HSV1, HSV2, HHV6, SMV, VZV, EBV) in the etiological structure of the eye’s diseases. The study involved 35 patients diagnosed with recurrent keratitis (15 patients) and viral uveitis (n = 20). Was carried out virological examination, including a study using fluorescent antibody scrapings from the cornea and conjunctiva for the presence of herpesvirus antigen in leukocytes and determination of the blood antigens of viruses with the calculation of the fluorescence index (FI). Set of different herpesvirus persistence in leukocytes of blood in 95% of patients with viral uveitis and 32% of patients with keratitis. In the each second patient with viral uveitis (10) detected association of three or more herpesvirus antigens in blood leukocytes. Most often these associations are found antigens of viruses EBV, SMV, and HHV6.