An outbreak of acute post-cataract surgery pseudomonas sp. endophthalmitis caused by contaminated hydrophilic intraocular lens solution

Ophthalmology

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 564-570

  Ramappa, Muralidhar ^a   Majji, Ajit Babu ^b   Murthy, Somasheila I ^a   Balne, Praveen K ^a   Nalamada, Suma ^a   Garudadri, Chandrasekhar ^a   Mathai, Annie ^b   Gopinathan, Usha ^a   Garg, Prashant ^a  

^a L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^b Kallam Anji Reddy Campus   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AQUEOUS HUMOR; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROPHILICITY; INDIA; LENS IMPLANT; LENS IMPLANTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AQUEOUS HUMOR; CATARACT EXTRACTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; LENSES, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; PHARMACEUTICAL SOLUTIONS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VITREOUS BODY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857917795     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.09.031     Document Type: Article

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