Article
Persistence of conjunctival colonization by coagulase-negative staphylococci in patients undergoing cataract surgery
2022-03-07
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Purpose</bold>To establish the conjunctival contamination source by coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) during cataract surgery and discuss the implications of this colonization as a potential risk of acquiring endophthalmitis.<bold>Methods</bold> Conjunctiva samples for culture from 59 patients undergoing cataract surgery were taken of the fellow eye at baseline (T1) and from...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 24f14430-717c-5021-889a-5fd65545016e
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1311914/v1
