An outbreak of early-onset endophthalmitis caused by fusarium species following cataract surgery

Current Eye Research

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 988-995

  Çakir, Mehmet ^a   Imamoǧlu, Serhat ^a   Çekiç, Osman ^b   Bozkurt, Ercüment ^a   Alagöz, Neşe ^a   Öksüz, Lütfiye ^c   Yilmaz, Ömer F ^a  

^a Beyoglu Eye Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^b VAKIF GUREBA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cataract; Early onset; Endophthalmitis; Fusarium; PostoperativeCorrespondence

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; ITRACONAZOLE; MOXIFLOXACIN; SILICONE OIL; VANCOMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EPIDEMIC; EVISCERATION; FEMALE; FUSARIUM SOLANI; HUMAN; INTRACAPSULAR CATARACT EXTRACTION; LENS IMPLANT; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

AGED; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE EVISCERATION; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUSARIUM; HUMANS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PYRIMIDINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAZOLES; TURKEY; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 72449188738     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713680903254822     Document Type: Article

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