Phenotypic and plasmid pattern analysis of Staphylococcus epidermidis in bacterial keratitis

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-13

  Nayak, Niranjan ^a   Satpathy, Gita ^a   Vajpayee, Rasik ^a   Mrudula, Srikantam ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Adherence; Coagulase negative staphylococci; Multidrug resistance; Plasmid; Slime

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ULCER; KERATITIS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; SEROTYPE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846063352     PISSN: 03014738     EISSN: 03014738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0301-4738.29488     Document Type: Article

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