An animal model of corneal bacterial infection induced by intra-corneal injection of Staphylococcus epidermidis

Journal of Japanese Ophthalmological Society

Volumn 103, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 506-511

  Fukuda, Masamichi ^a   Inoue, Amane ^a   Sasaki, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal model; External bacterial ocular inflammation; Fluoroquinolones; Intra ocular drug dynamic; Staphylococcus epidermidis

Indexed keywords

OFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AQUEOUS HUMOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ULCER; KERATITIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CORNEAL DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; INJECTIONS; OFLOXACIN; RABBITS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 0032794720     PISSN: 00290203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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