Microbiological findings and predisposing risk factors in corneal ulcers

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 250, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 369-374

  Prokosch, Verena ^a   Gatzioufas, Zisis ^b   Thanos, Solon ^a   Stupp, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bacterial spectrum; Corneal ulcer; Predisposing factor

Indexed keywords

CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FUSIDIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL KERATITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHILD; CITROBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ULCER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFECTION RISK; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SERRATIA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HOMINIS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; BACTERIAL EYE INFECTION; BACTERIUM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CAUSALITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORNEAL ULCER; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84861109220     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-011-1722-9     Document Type: Article

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