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Published in: BMC Infectious Diseases 3/2014

Open Access 01-05-2014 | Poster presentation

Nocardia asteroides ocular infection

Authors: Coimbatore Subramanian Shobana, Haridas Sreekumar, Prithiviraj Aiswariya, Kanesan Panneer Selvam, Yendrembam Randhir Babu Singh, Perumal Gomathi, Palanisamy Manikandan

Published in: BMC Infectious Diseases | Special Issue 3/2014

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Nocardia asteroides can cause ocular infection in immunocompetent and immunocompromised individuals following minor trauma. Hence present study was carried out to isolate N. asteroides from the patients attending a tertiary eye care hospital and to analyse the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of the Nocardia isolates. …
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Title
Nocardia asteroides ocular infection
Authors
Coimbatore Subramanian Shobana
Haridas Sreekumar
Prithiviraj Aiswariya
Kanesan Panneer Selvam
Yendrembam Randhir Babu Singh
Perumal Gomathi
Palanisamy Manikandan
Publication date
01-05-2014
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Infectious Diseases / Issue Special Issue 3/2014
Electronic ISSN: 1471-2334
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-14-S3-P2

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