Chronic postoperative endophthalmitis caused by Bipolaris australiensis

Retina

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 109-110

  Newell, Charles K ^a   Steinmetz, Robert L ^a   Brooks, H Logan ^a  

^a Southern Vitreoretinal Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFTAZIDIME; ITRACONAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BIPOLARIS AUSTRALIENSIS; CAPSULOTOMY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; FUNGUS; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; MYCOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; ASCOMYCETES; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRUG COMBINATION; FUNGAL EYE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LENS IMPLANT; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

AGED; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ASCOMYCOTA; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITRACONAZOLE; LENSES, INTRAOCULAR; MYCOSES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 33644861014     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006982-200601000-00020     Document Type: Article

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