Endophthalmitis caused by Moraxella osloensis

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 329-330

  Berrocal, Audina M ^a   Scott, Ingrid U ^a   Miller, Darlene ^a   Flynn Jr , Harry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAR; AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ATROPINE; BRIMONIDINE; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DORZOLAMIDE; GENTAMICIN; LEVOBUNOLOL; MITOMYCIN C; PENICILLIN G; PREDNISOLONE ACETATE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGAR MEDIUM; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORAXELLA; MORAXELLA OSLOENSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MORAXELLA; NEISSERIACEAE INFECTIONS; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 0036938841     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0449-z     Document Type: Article

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