Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 7 , Pages 1284-1287 , July 2007

Postoperative endophthalmitis caused by Bacillus cereus and Chlamydia trachomatis

,Accepted 22 March 2007.

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 No author has a financial or proprietary interest in any material or method mentioned.Presented as a poster at the XXIV Congress of the European Society of Cataract & Refractive Surgeons, London, England, September 2006.

PII: S0886-3350(07)00658-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jcrs.2007.03.047

Journal of Cataract & Refractive Surgery
Volume 33, Issue 7 , Pages 1284-1287 , July 2007

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