Corneal biopsy with tissue micro-homogenisation for isolation of organisms in bacterial keratitis

Eye

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 545-549

  Diamond, Jeremy ^a   Leeming, John ^b   Coombs, Geoff ^c   Pearman, John ^c   Sharma, Anant ^a   Illingworth, Chris ^a   Crawford, Geoff ^d   Easty, David ^a  

^a BRISTOL EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d LIONS EYE INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacterial keratitis; Corneal scrape; Infection; Laboratory investigation

Indexed keywords

AGAR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ULCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERATITIS; MALE; SCALPEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE HOMOGENATE;

EID: 0032847156     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.1999.135     Document Type: Article

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