Characterization of Fusarium Keratitis Outbreak Isolates: Contribution of Biofilms to Antimicrobial Resistance and Pathogenesis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 4450-4457

  Mukherjee, Pranab K ^a   Chandra, Jyotsna ^a   Yu, Changping ^a,b   Sun, Yan ^a   Pearlman, Eric ^a   Ghannoum, Mahmoud A ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Shandong Provincial Institute of Dermatology and Venereology   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; NATAMYCIN; VORICONAZOLE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUSARIUM; FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM; FUSARIUM SOLANI; KERATOMYCOSIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BIOFILMS; CORNEAL ULCER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; EPITHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FUSARIOSIS; FUSARIUM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NATAMYCIN; PYRIMIDINES; TRIAZOLES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84863736382     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-9848     Document Type: Article

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