Infectious keratitis in climatic droplet keratopathy

Cornea

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 455-458

  Sridhar, M S ^a   Garg, Prashant ^a   Das, Sujatha ^a   Vemuganti, Geeta ^a   Gopinathan, Usha ^a   Rao, Gullapalli N ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Climatic droplet keratopathy; Infectious keratitis; Predisposing factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLIMATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA STROMA; CORNEA ULCER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPYON; KERATITIS; KERATOPATHY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORNEA; CORNEAL ULCER; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0033926825     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-200007000-00009     Document Type: Article

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