Risk factors, microbial profiles and prognosis of microbial keratitis-associated endophthalmitis in high-risk eyes

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 252, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1457-1462

  O’Neill, Evelyn C ^a,c   Yeoh, Jonathan ^a,b   Fabinyi, David C A ^b   Cassidy, Dermot ^b   Vajpayee, Rasik B ^a,b   Allen, Penelope ^a,b   Connell, Paul P ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL VICTORIAN EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cornea; Endophthalmitis; Microbial keratitis; Microbiology; Risk factors; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIA; CORNEAL ULCER; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; ENUCLEATION; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ACUITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIA; CEFTAZIDIME; CORNEAL ULCER; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE ENUCLEATION; EYE EVISCERATION; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VANCOMYCIN; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84925226983     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: 1435702X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-014-2732-1     Document Type: Article

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