Chronic alcoholism and microbial keratitis.
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Chronic alcoholism and microbial keratitis.
In a series of 227 consecutive, non-referred patients with microbial keratitis an analysis of the accumulated hospital records showed that one-third were associated with chronic alcoholism. The diagnosis of alcoholism was usually unsuspected on admission to hospital. The microbial pathogenesis in these patients was distinctive; coagulase-negative staphylococci, alpha- and beta-streptococci, mor...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0007-1161
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.72.2.155