Bacteriological Study of Angular Blepharitis
Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
;
: 329-332, 1981.
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in Korean
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| ID: wpr-120788
ABSTRACT
Most common annoyant for angular blepharitis has long been known as a diplobacillus of Morax-Axenfeld since 1897. Bacteriological study has been done on 56 patients (102 eyes) being suffered from angular blepharitis clinically diagnosed in the Dept. of Ophthalmology, Yonsei University College of Medicine. Most angular blepharitis involved bilaterally (82%), 34 cases of angular blepharitis were seen in the nasal canthus (61%). Staphylococcus epidermidis was isolated from 50 eyes (49%) with angular blepharitis and staphylococcus au reus from 41 eyes (40%). No diplobacillus of Morax-Axenfeld was demonstrated in the culture from angular blepharitis.
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Main subject:
Ophthalmology
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Staphylococcus
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Staphylococcus epidermidis
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Blepharitis
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Korean
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
Year:
1981
Type:
Article
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