title: [Clinico-etiologic features of various types of courses of suppurative corneal ulcer].
abstract: Clinical observations of 366 patients with purulent corneal ulcers over the period of 1989-1998 helped the author distinguish two major patterns of its clinical course: acute (group 1, 164 patients) and primary chronic (group 2, 202 patients). The acute type was characterized by a fulminant onset, rapid progress of the ulcer, high incidence of complications (23.8%); growth of bacteria from ulcer surface was mainly due to highly pathogenic microflora (65.9%). Primary chronic type was characterized by a subacute onset, torpid course, lower incidence of complications (7.4%); the main etiological cause was opportunistic microflora (74.7%).
authors.forename: V A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Shaimova
mesh_terms: D003320:Corneal Ulcer / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D008875:Middle Aged; D013492:Suppuration