Some potential pathogenic traits of gram-negative bacteria isolated during ocular inflammation and infections

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 56-62

  Willcox, M D P ^a   Thakur, A ^a   Holden, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Contact lens; Epithelium; Haemophilus; Pseudomonas

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010498123     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.1998.tb06627.x     Document Type: Article

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