Microbial scleritis - Experience from a developing country

Eye

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 255-261

  Jain, V ^a,b   Garg, P ^a   Sharma, S ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b ADITYA JYOT EYE HOSPITAL PVT LTD   (India)

Author keywords

Cataract surgery; Fungus; Pterygium; Scleritis

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFAZOLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; NATAMYCIN; STEROID;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; CHOROID DETACHMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORNEA; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EVISCERATION; FEMALE; FUNGUS; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIXED INFECTION; NOCARDIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PTERYGIUM; RETINA DETACHMENT; SCLERITIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; ADOLESCENT; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; INDIA; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; PTERYGIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERITIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60149083904     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: 14765454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6703099     Document Type: Article

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