Keratitis caused by acanthamoeba spp.: A report of ten cases;Queratitis por acanthamoeba spp.: Presentación de diez casos

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 229-233

  López, Leyre ^a   De Fernando, Sandra ^a   Gaztelurrutia, Lurdes ^a   Vilar, Begoña ^a   Pérez Irezábal, Julio ^a   Barrón, Jorge ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CRUCES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Diagnosis and treatment; Keratitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BIGUANIDE DERIVATIVE; CHLORHEXIDINE; CONTACT LENS SOLUTION; CORTICOSTEROID; KETOCONAZOLE; NEOMYCIN; PROPAMIDINE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTACT LENS; CORNEA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATITIS; KERATOPLASTY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; SYMPTOM;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AMEBIASIS; AMEBICIDES; ANIMALS; BIGUANIDES; CONTACT LENS SOLUTIONS; CONTACT LENSES; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DRUG CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATITIS; KETOCONAZOLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOMYCIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1642491149     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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