Effect of topical povidone-iodine versus topical ofloxacin on experimental Staphylococcus keratitis

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 238, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 459-462

  Melki, Samir A ^a,b   Safar, Ammar ^a   Yaghouti, Farzad ^a,b   Scharper, Philip ^a   Scharper, Mary ^a   Zeligs, Barbara ^a   MacDowell, Ana Luiza ^a   Goldberg, Michael A ^a   Lustbader, Jay ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; OFLOXACIN; POVIDONE IODINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; KERATITIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CORNEA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; IODOPHORS; KERATITIS; MALE; OFLOXACIN; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; POVIDONE-IODINE; RABBITS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0034128616     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050379     Document Type: Article

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