Impact of eye bank lamellar tissue cutting for endothelial keratoplasty on bacterial and fungal corneoscleral donor rim cultures after corneal transplantation

Cornea

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 376-379

  Rauen, Matthew P ^a   Goins, Kenneth M ^a,b   Sutphin, John E ^c   Kitzmann, Anna S ^a   Schmidt, Gregory A ^b   Wagoner, Michael D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Iowa Lions Eye Bank   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial cultures; Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty; fungal cultures; keratoplasty; penetrating keratoplasty

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR LAMELLAR KERATOPLASTY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CANDIDA; CORNEA; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; DONOR; ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; EYEBANK; FUNGUS CULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA; CORNEA; CORNEAL TRANSPLANTATION; DESCEMET STRIPPING ENDOTHELIAL KERATOPLASTY; EYE BANKS; FUNGI; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERA; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 84858683027     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e31823cbee3     Document Type: Article

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