Clinical significance of slime production by Staphylococcus epidermidis in bacterial keratitis

Annals of Ophthalmology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 204-210

  Nayak, Niranjan ^a   Satpathy, Gita ^a   Vajpayee, Rasik B ^a   Sethi, Anita ^a   Ray, Mantosh ^a   Sinha, Rajesh ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; SISOMICIN SULFATE; STEROID; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN SULFATE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ULCER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRY EYE; EXTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HUMAN; KERATITIS; LENS IMPLANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; RABBIT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STEROID THERAPY;

EID: 0037001360     PISSN: 15304086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12009-002-0077-6     Document Type: Article

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