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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
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Special Issue 3/2014
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Excerpt
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. …