Corynebacteriumspp as causative agents of microbial keratitis
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Corynebacterium spp as causative agents of microbial keratitis.
PURPOSE To report the clinical and microbiological profile of keratitis caused by Corynebacterium spp. METHODS The medical and microbiology records of 22 patients, who had presented at the L V Prasad Eye Institute, Bhubaneswar, between June 2009 and December 2012, and whose corneal scrapings had yielded significant growth of Corynebacterium spp, were retrospectively reviewed. A detailed ocula...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0007-1161,1468-2079
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2015-306749