Isolation and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of Nocardia among people with culture-proven ocular infections attending a tertiary care eye hospital in Tamilnadu, South India

Eye

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1102-1108

  Manikandan, P ^a   Bhaskar, M ^b   Revathi, R ^a   Anita, R ^a   Abarna Lakshmi, L R ^a   Narendran, V ^a  

^a ARAVIND EYE HOSPITAL   (India)

^b Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFAZOLIN; CEFOTAXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL EYE INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIOSIS; NONHUMAN; VITREOUS BIOPSY;

EID: 34547933691     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6702513     Document Type: Article

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