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. 2008 May;92(5):720-1.
doi: 10.1136/bjo.2007.134171.

Fusarium and Acanthamoeba keratitis: can a single centre detect outbreaks?

W Sansanayudh  1 , V Cevallos, T C Porco, T P Margolis, T M Lietman, N R Acharya
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Fusarium and Acanthamoeba keratitis: can a single centre detect outbreaks?

W Sansanayudh et al. Br J Ophthalmol. 2008 May.
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Incidence of Fusarium keratitis at the F I Proctor Foundation, 1987–2007. The curve shows the percentage of all cultures in each year that were positive for Fusarium species. The absolute number of cases for each year is indicated within the plotting circle. The shaded region indicates the time of the excess clustering (distribution of Tango’s focused clustering statistic, using re-sampling, conditional on rejection of the null hypothesis with MEET). Data were available through May 2007.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Incidence of Acanthamoeba keratitis at the F I Proctor Foundation, 1987–2007. The curve shows the percentage of all cultures in each year that were positive for Acanthamoeba species. The absolute number of cases for each year is indicated within the plotting circle. The shaded regions indicate times of the excess clustering. Data were available through May 2007.
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