Normal flora of the external eye

Insight - Journal of the American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 12-13

  Kirkwood, Bradley J ^a,b  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTACT LENS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EYE SURGERY; EYELID; FUNGUS; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIA; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTACT LENSES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EYELIDS; FUNGI; HUMANS; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 34147222765     PISSN: 1060135X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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