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Predicting bacterial cause in infectious conjunctivitis: cohort study on informativeness of combinations of signs and symptoms.

OBJECTIVE To find an efficient set of diagnostic indicators that are optimally informative in the diagnosis of a bacterial origin of acute infectious conjunctivitis. DESIGN Cohort study involving consecutive patients. Results of index tests and reference standard were collected independently from each other. SETTING 25 Dutch health centres. PARTICIPANTS 184 adults presenting with a red ey...

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BACTERIAL CONJUNCTIVITIS IN ZAHEDAN

The objective of this study was to determine the most common type of pathogen causing conjunctivitis. Out of 495 patients who referred to the Zahedan Eye Clinic from May 22, 199 1 to October 22, 1992,296 cases were diagnosed as nonbacterial conjunctivitis. From the remaining number of cases, two patients had chlamydia and six patients had Candida albicans, while the frequency of bacterial i...

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