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Volume 28, Number 11—November 2022
Research

Fungal Endophthalmitis Outbreak after Cataract Surgery, South Korea, 2020

Soo Jeong Yoon1, Soo Hyun Kim1, Hyun Jung Bahk, Yeong Seo Ahn, Ji Joo Lee, Hye Jin Kim, Ha Jin Lim, Min Ji Choi, Jong Hee Shin, and Yeon-Kyeng LeeComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, Cheongju, South Korea (S.J. Yoon, H.J. Bahk, Y.S. Ahn, J.J. Lee, H.J. Kim, Y.-K. Lee); Chonnam National University Medical School, Hwasun, South Korea (S.H. Kim, H.J. Lim, M.J. Choi, J.H. Shin)

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Figure 1

Flowchart for case-patient selection during fungal endophthalmitis outbreaks after cataract surgery, South Korea, 2020. Surgeries took place at 69 cataract surgery hospitals during September 1–November 30, 2020, and cases of Fusarium oxysporum endophthalmitis were identified during September 1, 2020–January 11, 2021.

Figure 1. Flowchart for case-patient selection during fungal endophthalmitis outbreaks after cataract surgery, South Korea, 2020. Surgeries took place at 69 cataract surgery hospitals during September 1–November 30, 2020, and cases of Fusarium oxysporum endophthalmitis were identified during September 1, 2020–January 11, 2021.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this work.

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