Multiple drug-resistant Alcaligenes xylosoxidans keratitis in a sanitation worker

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 212-214

  Kiernan, Daniel F ^a   Chin, Eric K ^b   Sclafani, Louise A ^a   Saidel, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcaligenes xylosoxidans; Contact lens; Keratitis

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; MOXIFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXICIN; NATAMYCIN; POLYMYXIN B; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TRIMETHOPRIM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACHROMOBACTER XYLOSOXIDANS; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTACT LENS; DRUG SENSITIVITY; EYE PAIN; HUMAN; KERATITIS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY;

ACHROMOBACTER DENITRIFICANS; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; AMINOGLYCOSIDES; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEPHALOSPORINS; CONTACT LENS SOLUTIONS; CONTACT LENSES; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FLUOROQUINOLONES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KERATITIS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POLYMYXINS; SANITATION; TOILET FACILITIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIMETHOPRIM;

EID: 68849126225     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICL.0b013e3181aac4fd     Document Type: Article

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