Study of mycobiota in the healthy conjunctiva of diabetics who reside in the urban area of the city of São Paulo, Brazil;Estudo da micobiota em conjuntiva sadia de diabéticos, residentes na área urbana da cidade de São Paulo - Brasil

Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-83

  de Andrade, Alfredo José Muniz ^a,b   Höfling Lima, Ana Luisa ^a   Yu, Maria Cecília Zorat ^a   Godoy, Patricio ^a   Gompertz, Olga Fischman ^a   Bonfim, Sabrina de Souza ^a   de Andrade, Francisco Eudes Muniz ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIFESP ^*  (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aspergillus niger isolation purification; Aspergillus isolation purification; Colony count; Conjunctiva microbiology; Diabetes mellitus; Diabetic retinopathy; Fungi isolation purification; Microbial; Urban population

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLORANFENICOL; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BRAZIL; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENDER; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROFLORA; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33746380841     PISSN: 00042749     EISSN: 16782925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-27492006000100015     Document Type: Article

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