Optimizing diagnosis and management of Nocardia keratitis, scleritis, and endophthalmitis: 11-year microbial and clinical overview

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1193-1200

  Decroos, Francis Char ^a   Garg, Prashant ^b   Reddy, Ashok K ^b   Sharma, Ashish ^b,c   Krishnaiah, Sannapaneni ^b   Mungale, Meeta ^b,d   Mruthyunjaya, Prithvi ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^b L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^c Lotus Eye Care Hospital   (India)

^d Kallam Anji Reddy Campus ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPLEGIC AGENT; GENTAMICIN; OFLOXACIN; STEROID; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; FEMALE; GRAM STAINING; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; KERATITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NOCARDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCLERITIS; SMEAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATITIS; MALE; NOCARDIA; NOCARDIA INFECTIONS; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERITIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79958016578     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.10.037     Document Type: Article

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