Treatment of multidrug-resistant flavobacterium indologenes keratitis with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole

Cornea

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1074-1076

  Ramos Esteban, Jerome C ^a   Bamba, Sonya ^a   Jeng, Bennie H ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flavobacterium indologenes; Infectious keratitis; Multidrug resistant; Trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GATIFLOXACIN; LOTEPREDNOL ETABONATE; THIOGLYCOLIC ACID; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CHRYSEOBACTERIUM INDOLOGENES; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORNEA ULCER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIDECTOMY; KERATITIS; LENS IMPLANT; LENS LUXATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; PSEUDOPHAKIA; SLIT LAMP; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FLAVOBACTERIUM; HUMANS; KERATITIS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 58149148305     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e318176189e     Document Type: Article

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