Trends in bacterial and fungal keratitis in South India, 2002-2012

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 192-194

  Lalitha, Prajna ^a   Prajna, Namperumalsamy V ^a   Manoharan, Geetha ^a   Srinivasan, Muthiah ^a   Mascarenhas, Jeena ^a   Das, Manoranjan ^a   D'Silva, Sean S ^a   Porco, Travis C ^b,c   Keenan, Jeremy D ^b,c  

^a ARAVIND EYE CARE SYSTEM   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIAL KERATITIS; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CORNEA SMEAR; CORNEA ULCER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUSARIUM; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INDIA; KERATOMYCOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; NOCARDIA; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMEAR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TREND STUDY; BACTERIA; CORNEAL ULCER; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FUNGUS; HOSPITAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; TRENDS;

BACTERIA; CORNEAL ULCER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FUNGI; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; INDIA; OPHTHALMOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84921461811     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2014-305000     Document Type: Article

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