Endophthalmitis caused by enterococcus faecalis: Clinical features, antibiotic sensitivities, and outcomes

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 158, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1018-1023.e1

  Kuriyan, Ajay E ^a   Sridhar, Jayanth ^a   Flynn, Harry W ^a   Smiddy, William E ^a   Albini, Thomas A ^a   Berrocal, Audina M ^a   Forster, Richard K ^a   Belin, Peter J ^a,b   Miller, Darlene ^a  

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

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; DEXAMETHASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; LINEZOLID; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CILIARY DISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PENETRATING KERATOPLASTY; PERCEPTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; EYE SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VITREOUS BODY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 84908615230     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: 18791891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2014.07.038     Document Type: Article

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