Bacterial Endophthalmitis: Epidemiology, Therapeutics, and Bacterium-Host Interactions
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Bacterial endophthalmitis: epidemiology, therapeutics, and bacterium-host interactions.
Endophthalmitis is a severe inflammation of the interior of the eye caused by the introduction of contaminating microorganisms following trauma, surgery, or hematogenous spread from a distant infection site. Despite appropriate therapeutic intervention, bacterial endophthalmitis frequently results in visual loss, if not loss of the eye itself. Although the pathogenicity of bacterial endophthalm...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Microbiology Reviews
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0893-8512,1098-6618
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.15.1.111-124.2002