Etiologic diagnosis of corneal ulceration at a Tertiary Eye Center in Kathmandu, Nepal

Cornea

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1380-1385

  Feilmeier, Michael R ^a   Sivaraman, Kavitha R ^a   Oliva, Matt ^b   Tabin, Geoffrey C ^a   Gurung, Reeta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TILGANGA INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

corneal ulcer; epidemiology; infectious keratitis; Nepal

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPICILLIN; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; OFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL EYE INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CORNEA ULCER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; KERATITIS; KERATOMYCOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEPAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORNEA; CORNEAL ULCER; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FEMALE; FUNGI; GENTIAN VIOLET; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; PHENAZINES; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 78650512044     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3181d92881     Document Type: Article

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