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Rapid diagnosis of acanthamoeba keratitis using non-nutrient agar with a lawn of E. coli

BACKGROUND: A patient presented with a corneal foreign body in his only eye. He was treated with prophylactic antibiotics and sent home, but deteriorated. FINDINGS: He returned to the hospital 5 days later, and on slit-lamp examination, there was ciliary injection, corneal oedema and a 1 mm × 1 mm c...

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Autores principales: Borin, Samuel, Feldman, Ilan, Ken-Dror, Shifra, Briscoe, Daniel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605080/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23514313
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1869-5760-3-40