Mycobacterium chelonae wound ulcer after clear-cornea cataract surgery

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1888-1889

  Mah Sadorra, Jeane Haidee ^b   Cohen, Elisabeth J ^a   Rapuano, Christopher J ^b  

^a WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; OFLOXACIN; TOBRAMYCIN;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CORNEA ULCER; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IRITIS; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL WOUND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMIKACIN; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORNEA; CORNEAL ULCER; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 10044243589     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.122.12.1888     Document Type: Short Survey

References (3)

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