Streptococcal endophthalmitis in pediatric keratoprosthesis

Ophthalmology

Volumn 120, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Rachitskaya, Aleksandra V ^a   Moysidis, Stavros N ^b   Miller, Darlene ^a   Perez, Victor L ^a   Banitt, Michael R ^a   Alfonso, Eduardo C ^a   Parel, Jean Marie ^a   Berrocal, Audina M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; AZITHROMYCIN; BEVACIZUMAB; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; PIPERACILLIN; PREDNISOLONE; TAZOBACTAM; TRIAMCINOLONE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE REDNESS; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATOPROSTHESIS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SUBRETINAL FLUID; VITRECTOMY; VITREOUS OPACITY;

EID: 84879770330     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2013.02.001     Document Type: Letter

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