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MeSH Heading: Eye Infections, Bacterial
Tree Number(s): C01.150.252.289; C01.375.354; C11.294.354
Unique ID: D015818
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015818
Annotation: coordinate with specific bacterial disease
Scope Note: Infections in the inner or external eye caused by microorganisms belonging to several families of bacteria. Some of the more common genera found are Haemophilus, Neisseria, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, and Chlamydia.
Entry Version: EYE INFECT BACT
Entry Term(s): Bacterial Eye Infections; Bacterial Ocular Infections; Infections, Bacterial Eye; Infections, Bacterial Ocular; Ocular Infections, Bacterial
NLM Classification #: WW 160
Previous Indexing: Eye Diseases (1966-1989); specific bacterial infection (1966-1989)
Public MeSH Note: 90
History Note: 90
Date Established: 1990/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/09/06
Revision Date: 2019/06/17

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

transmission (TM)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Concept UI: M0024228
Scope Note: Infections in the inner or external eye caused by microorganisms belonging to several families of bacteria. Some of the more common genera found are Haemophilus, Neisseria, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, and Chlamydia.
Terms: Eye Infections, Bacterial Preferred Term
Term UI T046897
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1990); Infections, Bacterial Eye
Term UI T046895
Date11/05/1990
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Bacterial Eye Infections
Term UI T046896
Date05/16/1989
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1990); Bacterial Ocular Infections
Term UI T046898
Date02/12/1993
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1994); Infections, Bacterial Ocular
Term UI T046899
Date11/05/1990
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Ocular Infections, Bacterial
Term UI T046900
Date04/17/1989
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1990)

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