Delayed-onset bleb-associated endophthalmitis: Presentation and outcome by culture

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 739-744

  Jacobs, David J ^a   Leng, Theodore ^a   Flynn Jr , Harry W ^a   Shi, Wei ^a   Miller, Darlene ^a   Gedde, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bleb associated endophthalmitis; Culture results; Endophthalmitis; Trabeculectomy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLEB ASSOCIATED ENDOPHTHALMITIS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENUCLEATION; EYE FUNDUS; EYE INFECTION; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FILTERING OPERATION; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORAXELLA; NONHUMAN; PARS PLANAVITRECTOMY; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SERRATIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TAP AND INJECTION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 79958782239     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S17975     Document Type: Article

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