Keratitis due to Shigella flexneri

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2291-2294

  Muytjens, Harry L ^a   Eggink, Catharina A ^a   Dijkman, Frederik C A P ^a   Bakkers, Judith M J E ^a   Melchers, Willem J G ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ATROPINE; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DEXAMETHASONE; GENTAMICIN; GRAMICIDIN; HOMATROPINE; NEOMYCIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; POLYMYXIN B; SCOPOLAMINE; STEROID; SULFONAMIDE; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CORNEA; CORNEA ULCER; DEHYDRATION; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KERATITIS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; SHIGELLOSIS; ULCERATIVE KERATITIS;

CHILD; CORNEA; CORNEAL ULCER; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; DYSENTERY, BACILLARY; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 33745149717     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00481-06     Document Type: Article

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