Staphylococcus aureus ocular isolates from symptomatic adverse events: Antibiotic resistance and similarity of bacteria causing adverse events

Clinical and Experimental Optometry

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 148-155

  Schubert, Tracey L ^a,b,c   Hume, Emma Bh ^b,c   Willcox, Mark Dp ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Forest Research   (Australia)

^c VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Resistance; Staphylococcus aureus

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL EYE INFECTION; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 38949152681     PISSN: 08164622     EISSN: 14440938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-0938.2007.00219.x     Document Type: Article

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