Case of endogenous endophthalmitis caused by Streptococcus equisimilis

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 917-918

  Suemori, Shinsuke ^a   Sawada, Akira ^a   Komori, Shinya ^a   Mochizuki, Kiyofumi ^a   Ohkusu, Kiyofumi ^a   Takemura, Hirofumi ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endocarditis; Endogenous endophthalmitis; Group G streptococcus; Streptococcus equisimilis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; AMYLASE; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN G POTASSIUM; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; CONJUNCTIVA; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ENDOGENOUS ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE BIOPSY; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE FUNDUS; EYE INFECTION; EYE INFLAMMATION; EYELID; EYELID SWELLING; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; HYPOPYON; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE BLOOD LEVEL; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; POLYMORPHONUCLEAR CELL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE EQUISIMILIS; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77956121939     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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