Microbiological profile of donor corneas a retrospective study from an eye bank in North India

Cornea

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-87

  Tandon, Radhika ^a   Mehta, Mridula ^a   Satpathy, Gita ^a   Titiyal, Jeewan S ^a   Sharma, Namrata ^a   Vajpayee, Rasik B ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contamination by bacteria or fungi; Donor cornea decontamination in eye bank; Donor corneal rim culture; Donor corneas; Microbiological profile

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GENTAMICIN; POVIDONE IODINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CORNEA; DONOR; DRUG EFFECT; EYEBANK; FUNGUS; HUMAN; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AMIKACIN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CORNEA; DECONTAMINATION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EYE BANKS; FUNGI; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; INDIA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; POVIDONE-IODINE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 40449124767     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31815873ab     Document Type: Article

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