Changes in bacterial and fungal ocular flora of clinically normal horses following experimental application of topical antimicrobial or antimicrobial-corticosteroid ophthalmic preparations

American Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 800-811

  Gemensky Metzler, Anne J ^a   Wilkie, David A ^a   Kowalski, Joseph J ^a   Schmall, L Michael ^a   Willis, A Michelle ^a,b   Yamagata, Maya ^a,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Animal Vision   (United States)

^c Hawaii Veterinary Vision Care   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ARTIFICIAL TEAR; BACITRACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; GENTAMICIN; NEOMYCIN; POLYMYXIN B; PREDNISOLONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLADOSPORIUM; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HORSE; MALE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MORAXELLA; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOMYCES;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BACITRACIN; BACTERIA; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; EYE; FEMALE; FUNGI; GENTAMICINS; HORSES; MALE; NEOMYCIN; POLYMYXIN B; PREDNISOLONE;

ACINETOBACTER; ANIMALIA; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); CLADOSPORIUM; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; ENTEROBACTER; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; MORAXELLA (GENUS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 20444461608     PISSN: 00029645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/ajvr.2005.66.800     Document Type: Article

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