Multiresistant Pseudomonas keratitis

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 818-819

  Ku, Jae Yee ^a   Kim, Peter ^a   Tong, Jonathan ^a   Wechsler, Alfred ^a   McCluskey, Peter ^a,b,c  

^a SYDNEY EYE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFALOTIN; CEFTAZIDIME; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; MEROPENEM; OFLOXACIN; TIMENTIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE PAIN; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; KERATITIS; KERATOPLASTY; LETTER; MALE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFTAZIDIME; CORNEAL ULCER; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; KERATOPLASTY, PENETRATING; MALE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 78149482076     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2010.02347.x     Document Type: Letter

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