Background: Ophthalmia neonatorum (ON) is the most widespread eye infection occurring in first 28 days of life. Although these cases are benign, some may progress to systemic complications or blindness if left untreated.
 Objectives: The current study was conducted with aim revealing bacteriological causes conjunctivitis neonates and antibiotic sensitivity pattern bacteria.
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Conjunctivitis is the inflammation of the conjunctiva, a thin, translucent, relatively elastic tissue layer with bulbar, forniceal and palpebral portions (figure1). The bulbar portion lines the outer aspect of the globe, whiles the forniceal which is loose and redundant swells easily and is thrown into folds. The palpebral portion covers the inside of the eyelids firmly adherent to the tarsal p...

BACKGROUND Conjunctivitis is one of the most frequently occurring hospital-acquired infections among neonates, although it is less studied than potentially life-threatening infections, such as sepsis and pneumonia. OBJECTIVES The aims of our work were to identify epidemiologic characteristics, pathogens, and susceptibility patterns of bacterial hospital-acquired conjunctivitis (HAC) in a leve...

A young nurse, undertaking a working holiday in Australia, sees a 5-year-old Aboriginal girl while doing a locum in a remote coastal community of the Northern Territory. The young girl has been brought in by her grandmother because she has discharge coming from her eyes. From the notes, the nurse sees that the child has had multiple presentations for ear and skin infections but is otherwise wel...

Approximately 30% of the population suffers from an allergy, and allergic conjunctivitis affects 40-80% of allergic patients, with an increased prevalence in Western countries [1]. In lammation of the conjunctiva of the eye is often associated with rhinitis and sometimes asthma. In the pediatric age group <14 years, 46% of patients with allergic phenotype had symptoms of allergic rhino conjunct...

This case report describes a case of self-inflicted chronic bacterial keratoconjunctivitis involving the patient's own semen. A 20-year-old male soldier was referred to our clinic for the evaluation of refractory chronic bacterial conjunctivitis. Over the previous 4 months, he had been treated for copious mucous discharge, conjunctival injection, and superficial punctate keratitis in both eyes ...

One hundred fifty-eight patients, 21 years of age or less, presenting with culture-positive (Haemophilus influenzae or Streptococcus pneumoniae) conjunctivitis were treated with trimethoprim-polymyxin B (TP), gentamicin sulfate (GS) or sodium sulfacetamide (SS) ophthalmic solution for 10 days. Clinical response at 3 to 6 days after start of therapy was similar for all test agents: 26 of 55 (47%...

Media for isolation of Haemophilus sp. from the conjuctiva were compared in an oasis in southern Tunisia where severe trachoma and seasonal epidemic purulent conjunctivitis are common. Of 89 children tested, IsoVitaleX-supplemented chocolate agar yielded Haemophilus in 87%, plain chocolate agar in 75%, sheep blood agar with a stab of Staphylococcus epidermidis in 74%, and Fildes medium in 58%. ...

BACKGROUND Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common sexually transmitted pathogen in adults, which at delivery may be transmitted from mother to child and cause conjunctivitis and pneumonia. In The Netherlands, prenatal chlamydial screening and treatment of pregnant women is not routine practice. The contribution of C. trachomatis to neonatal ophthalmic disease has not been studied in The Nethe...