Predicting bacterial cause in infectious conjunctivitis: “History of conjunctivitis” needs clarifying
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BACTERIAL CONJUNCTIVITIS IN ZAHEDAN
The objective of this study was to determine the most common type of pathogen causing conjunctivitis. Out of 495 patients who referred to the Zahedan Eye Clinic from May 22, 199 1 to October 22, 1992,296 cases were diagnosed as nonbacterial conjunctivitis. From the remaining number of cases, two patients had chlamydia and six patients had Candida albicans, while the frequency of bacterial i...
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OBJECTIVE To find an efficient set of diagnostic indicators that are optimally informative in the diagnosis of a bacterial origin of acute infectious conjunctivitis. DESIGN Cohort study involving consecutive patients. Results of index tests and reference standard were collected independently from each other. SETTING 25 Dutch health centres. PARTICIPANTS 184 adults presenting with a red ey...
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INTRODUCTION Most cases of conjunctivitis in adults are probably due to viral infection, but children are more likely to develop bacterial conjunctivitis than they are viral forms. The main bacterial pathogens are Haemophilus influenzae and Streptococcus pneumoniae in adults and children, and Moraxella catarrhalis in children. Contact lens wearers may be more likely to develop gram-negative inf...
متن کاملBacterial conjunctivitis
CLINICAL QUESTION What is the best treatment for bacterial conjunctivitis? RESULTS Topical antibiotics expedite recovery from bacterial conjunctivitis. The choice of antibiotic usually does not affect outcome. IMPLEMENTATION Recognition of key distinguishing features of bacterial conjunctivitis Pitfalls that can be recognized in the history and physical examinationChoice of antibioticWhen t...
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the objective of this study was to determine the most common type of pathogen causing conjunctivitis. out of 495 patients who referred to the zahedan eye clinic from may 22, 199 1 to october 22, 1992,296 cases were diagnosed as nonbacterial conjunctivitis. from the remaining number of cases, two patients had chlamydia and six patients had candida albicans, while the frequency of bacterial infec...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.329.7466.625