Microbial keratitis and ocular surface disease: A 5-year study of the microbiology, risk factors and clinical outcomes in Sydney, Australia.
Conclusion: Microbial keratitis can affect those with OSD. In our setting, CoNS were the main organisms identified. Furthermore, patients prescribed a combination therapy of fortified antibiotics had poorer outcomes compared to monotherapy fluoroquinolones.
PMID: 31189397 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Eye Research - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Khoo P, Cabrera-Aguas M, Robaei D, Lahra MM, Watson S Tags: Curr Eye Res Source Type: research
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