The effectiveness of a topical antibiotic irrigating solution in a model of staphylococcal keratitis after lamellar keratectomy

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 130, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 20-24

  Rao, Sanjay N ^a   Fong, Yi Chiang ^a   Kampmeier, Juergen ^a   Labree, Laurie D ^a   Tanzer, David J ^a   McDonnell, Peter J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFECTION PREVENTION; KERATECTOMY; KERATITIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; WOUND IRRIGATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMAL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, FLUOROQUINOLONE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CORNEAL STROMA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; CORNEAL ULCER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; IRRIGATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OFLOXACIN; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; RABBITS; SAFETY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033830435     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(00)00397-4     Document Type: Article

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