Suppurative corneal ulceration in Bangladesh
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Microbiological diagnosis of suppurative keratitis in Bangladesh.
Experience in setting up an inexpensive microbiology laboratory in the Bangladesh National Society for the Blind Eye Hospital and Training Complex at Chittagong is presented, together with the results of a pilot study to identify organisms responsible in 33 consecutive cases of suppurative keratitis in the Chittagong area of Bangladesh. Of the 33 cases 21 were positively identified by means of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0814-9763,1440-1606
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.1994.tb00775.x