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The Infected Eye Clinical Practice and Pathological Principles
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The Infected Eye
Nora V. Laver • Charles S. Specht Editors
The Infected Eye Clinical Practice and Pathological Principles
Editors Nora V. Laver Tufts University School of Medicine Tufts Medical Center Boston, MA USA
Charles S. Specht Penn State College of Medicine Penn State Health-Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Hershey, PA USA
ISBN 978-3-319-42838-3 ISBN 978-3-319-42840-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-42840-6
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Preface
In 2015, we were approached by Springer to develop a book on ocular infectious disease. On looking through texts available at the time, few were dedicated to the subject. What was lacking was a clinically accessible book that was intended for the practicing ophthalmologist, but that contained basic pathology information of value for the understanding of infectious processes in the eye and periocular tissues. Such a book need not be encyclopedic. It need not contain an atlas of ocular microbiology or include a manual of laboratory technique. It should, however, demonstrate useful clinical approaches to ocular infectious disease and describe key organisms with their effects on the eye. To this end, contributing clinical authors were recruited from Tufts New England Eye Center and the Penn State Hershey Eye Center, and additional collaborators were included as these authors developed their chapters. The clinical sections are organized by anatomic site to cover periocular tissues and the ocular globe, with a separate chapter to address ocular infection in pediatric practice. A clinically oriented section on a
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