Acute inflammation of the eyelid and cornea in Staphylococcus keratitis in the rabbit

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 385-391

  Sloop, Gregory D ^a   Moreau, Judy M ^a   Conerly, Lisa L ^a   Dajcs, Joseph J ^a   O'Callaghan, Richard J ^a,b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LSU EYE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELOPEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL MIGRATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA STROMA; DISEASE COURSE; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; EYELID DISEASE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KERATITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RABBIT; SLIT LAMP; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; BLEPHARITIS; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CORNEA; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; EYELIDS; KERATITIS; NEUTROPHILS; PEROXIDASE; RABBITS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0032894862     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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