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Severe ocular reactions after neonatal ocular prophylaxis with gentamicin ophthalmic ointment.

Author(s): Nathawad R, Mendez H, Ahmad A, Laungani S, Hoa BT, Garlick J, Hammerschlag MR

Affiliation(s): SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA. rita.nathawad@downstate.edu

Publication date & source: 2011-02, Pediatr Infect Dis J., 30(2):175-6.

In this study, we report 4 infants who developed severe ocular reactions after neonatal ocular prophylaxis with gentamicin ophthalmic ointment during a period of erythromycin ophthalmic ointment shortage. In light of this experience, gentamicin ophthalmic ointment should not be used as an alternative for neonatal ocular prophylaxis.

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