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Ocular Infections

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Age-related degenerative ocular and adnexal changes predispose the elderly to eye infections. The reduction in host defenses associated with age-related degenerative changes significantly compromises the capacity of eyes of elderly people to withstand prolonged exposure to microbial pathogens. Consequently, the elderly tend to have higher rates of eye infection and poorer treatment outcomes. The poorer treatment outcomes are, in part, due to delays in diagnosis as well as delays in presentation.

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  1. Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science and Martin Luther King, Jr.-Charles R. Drew Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Thomas T. Yoshikawa MD

  2. Greater West Los Angeles Healthcare System and UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Dean C. Norman MD

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Flowers, C.W., Baker, R.S. (2001). Ocular Infections. In: Yoshikawa, T.T., Norman, D.C. (eds) Infectious Disease in the Aging. Infectious Disease. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-026-1_16

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