Eye infections were initially observed in single-comb white leghorn breeder chicks at 5 days of age, and morbidity increased from 0.05% to 1.5% after debeaking at 7 days of age. All chicks necropsied at 15 days of age had cheesy yellow exudate within the conjunctival sac of one eye and small (1 mm diameter) white nodular lesions in lungs and on thoracic air-sac membranes. Histopathologic examin...

conclusions the frequency of nis in this hospital was lower in comparison with other worldwide studies. however, low incidence of health care-associated infections in our study may be due to under diagnosis and underreporting of such infections by health care staff. results the incidence of nis was low (i.e. < 2%). among 16936 admitted patients in this hospital, 174 patients (79 males and 95 fe...

OBJECTIVE To assess different management strategies for acute infective conjunctivitis. DESIGN Open, factorial, randomised controlled trial. SETTING 30 general practices in southern England. PARTICIPANTS 307 adults and children with acute infective conjunctivitis. INTERVENTION One of three antibiotic prescribing strategies-immediate antibiotics (chloramphenicol eye drops; n = 104), no a...

Because it is difficult to distinguish between infectious and noninfectious conditions, and because treating infections with corticosteroids alone can have grave consequences, we recommend that internists generally not use topical corticosteroids to treat eye symptoms. ANY PATIENTS present to internists because of redness in the eye. The possible causes range from benign (which generally can be...

background: normal bacterial flora of the conjunctiva, which inhibits growth of opportunistic organisms, has an important role in the prevention of ocular infections. if resident flora is inhibited by disease or long-term application of antibiotics, opportunistic pathogens overgrow, leading to disease. objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of ophthalmic chloramphenico...

Bacterial infections ofthe anterior segment ofthe eye are not a common feature of AIDS but once established these infections may be particularly severe and more likely to cause ulcer and perforation.' Pseudonwmas aeruginosa has been cultured in keratitis, corneal ulcers, and scleritis in HIV infected patients2; nevertheless, nobody has previously reported Pseudomonas conjunctival ulcers in HIV ...

Intrauterine infections are important causes of childhood blindness in both developed and developing countries. Chorioretinal scars are the most characteristic eye manifestation of a congenital or prenatal infection. The various ocular manifestations of congenital infections, summarized by the mnemonic TORCH, and recent additions to the "other" category (lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus and W...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, many people reduced their use of contact lenses because eye infections, but also continued to them. The electronic database scoping review for studies related Incidence infection in wearing during covid-19.This study followed acronym PCC (P = population; C concept; context). Papers topic were selected based on source and publication titles so that 5 papers obtained...

3. ROENNE, G. (1944).-.Local Treatment of Intrabulbar Infections. 2. The Clinical and Histological Picture of the Staphylococcus Infection. Acta Ophthal., Vol. XX1I, p. 105. 4. (1944).-Animal and Clinical Experiments with Penicillin Treatment of Intrabulbar Infections. Trans. Ophthal. Soc. Copenhagen, 247th meeting, March 23, 1944. Nordisk Medicin, Vol. XXVI, p. 1230 (Danish). 5. (1944).-Local ...