Ameba-associated keratitis, France

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1306-1308

  Cohen, Gaëlle ^a   Hoffart, Louis ^a   La Scola, B ^b   Raoult, Didier ^b   Drancourt, Michel ^b  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIFAMPICIN;

ADOLESCENT; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMEBIC INFECTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CASE REPORT; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CORNEAL BIOPSY; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATITIS; LETTER; MIMIVIRUS; MYOPIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SLIT LAMP; SOFT CONTACT LENS; VIROPHAGE;

ADOLESCENT; AMOEBA; CONTACT LENSES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; FLUOROQUINOLONES; FRANCE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; KERATITIS; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 79959907143     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1707.100826     Document Type: Letter

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