Outbreak of Empedobacter brevis endophthalmitis after cataract extraction

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 291-295

  Janknecht, P ^a   Schneider, C M ^a   Ness T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTIAM; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; FOSFOMYCIN; IMIPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SILICONE OIL; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPEDOBACTER BREVIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLAVOBACTERIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LAVAGE; LENSECTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETINA DETACHMENT; TIME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GERMANY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 0036938918     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0435-5     Document Type: Article

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