Case of a large, movable bacterial concretion with biofilm formation on the ocular surface

Cornea

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 513-515

  Mihara, Etsuko ^a   Shimizu, Masanori ^b   Touge, Chizu ^a   Inoue, Yoshitsugu ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shimizu Ophthalmic Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial concretion; Biofilm; Biomaterial; Corynebacterium; Necrotizing scleritis

Indexed keywords

IMIPENEM; LEVOFLOXACIN; MITOMYCIN C;

AGED; AMNION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CASE REPORT; CORYNEBACTERIUM; EYE INFECTION; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGIUM; SCLERITIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

AGED; BIOFILMS; CORNEAL DISEASES; CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM INFECTIONS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; SCLERAL DISEASES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 3042704262     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ico.0000114838.91149.6d     Document Type: Article

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