Risk factors for antibiotic-resistant conjunctival bacterial flora in patients undergoing intraocular surgery

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 241, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 730-733

  Miño de Kaspar, Herminia ^a,b   Shriver, Erin M ^a   Nguyen, Eddy V ^a   Egbert, Peter R ^a   Singh, Kuldev ^a   Blumenkranz, Mark S ^a   Ta, Christopher N ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTAZIDIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INSULIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; METICILLIN; MEZLOCILLIN; NEOMYCIN; NORFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; POVIDONE IODINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TOBRAMYCIN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLEPHARITIS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE SURGERY; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROCOCCUS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN DISEASE; SLIT LAMP; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; CONJUNCTIVA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; HUMANS; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0142061186     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-003-0742-5     Document Type: Article

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