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Corneal Infection Therapy with Topical Bacteriophage Administration

Staphylococcus aureus is a major pathogen in bacterial keratitis, a vision-threatening disease. Although the incidence of S. aureus keratitis varies worldwide, the increasing trend of resistance to certain antibiotics makes this condition an important, global, healthcare concern. We report the case...

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Autores principales: Fadlallah, Ali, Chelala, Elias, Legeais, Jean-Marc
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4740968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26862360
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874364101509010167
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description Staphylococcus aureus is a major pathogen in bacterial keratitis, a vision-threatening disease. Although the incidence of S. aureus keratitis varies worldwide, the increasing trend of resistance to certain antibiotics makes this condition an important, global, healthcare concern. We report the case of a 65-year-old woman with nosocomial left-eye corneal abscess and interstitial keratitis.The patient then undergo topical Phage therapy with successful results.
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spelling pubmed-47409682016-02-09 Corneal Infection Therapy with Topical Bacteriophage Administration Fadlallah, Ali Chelala, Elias Legeais, Jean-Marc Open Ophthalmol J Article Staphylococcus aureus is a major pathogen in bacterial keratitis, a vision-threatening disease. Although the incidence of S. aureus keratitis varies worldwide, the increasing trend of resistance to certain antibiotics makes this condition an important, global, healthcare concern. We report the case of a 65-year-old woman with nosocomial left-eye corneal abscess and interstitial keratitis.The patient then undergo topical Phage therapy with successful results. Bentham Open 2015-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4740968/ /pubmed/26862360 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874364101509010167 Text en © Fadlallah et al.; Licensee Bentham Open. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode), which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
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title_short Corneal Infection Therapy with Topical Bacteriophage Administration
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4740968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26862360
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