Contact lens-induced infection - A new model of Candida albicans keratitis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1607-1611

  O'Day, Denis M ^a,b   Head, W Steven ^a   Robinson, Richard D ^a   Yang, Rong ^a   Shetlar, Debra ^a   Wang, Ming X ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Medical Center East   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; FUNGUS CULTURE; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; KERATITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SUBCONJUNCTIVAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTACT LENSES; CORNEA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; KERATITIS; MALE; RABBITS; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

EID: 0032977943     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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