A follow up study three years after exposure to methyl isocyanate in 93% of exposed survivors and "control" residents in 10 Bhopali communities showed an excess of eye irritation, eyelid infection, cataract, and a decrease in visual acuity among the exposed people. Breathlessness was twice as common in the heavily exposed clusters as those with lower exposure, a trend that could not be explaine...

BACKGROUND The hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and treponema pallidum (TP) are blood-borne pathogens. They can lead to nosocomial and occupational infections in health care settings. We aimed to identify the prevalence of and risk factors associated with HBV, HCV, HIV and TP infections among patients with eye diseases at a tertiary eye hospit...

117 infants with gonococcal ophthalmia neonatorum, including 27 with infections due to penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae, were treated as outpatients with five different regimens of single-dose intramuscular kanamycin (75 mg or 150 mg) with saline eye washes, gentamicin eye ointment, or chloramphenicol eye drops. There were no treatment failures among 68 patients treated with 75 mg ...

lbpauz To study the prevalence aad causes of blindness and low vision in a middle-aged and elderly population of the NOtlWlands. MetlrodrIn a single center prospective follow-up study in Rotterdam, 6178 subjects of 55 years and older underwent a complete ophthalmological examination. The grade of visual impairment was classified according to WHO-standards: subjects with best-corrected visual ac...

Background: In patients with comorbid illnesses, COVID 19 disease is a severe acute respiratory syndrome that linked to variety of opportunistic bacterial and fungal infections. Finding the cause infections among post-covid in tertiary care hospitals aim study.Objectives: To study etiology various age groupsMethods: Out 578 samples (pus/tissue/biopsy) collected from attending Koti ENT hospital ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the antiviral activity of 2', 3'-dideoxycytidine (ddC) in vitro against a panel of ocular adenovirus serotypes and in vivo in the ocular Ad5/NZW rabbit replication model. METHODS In vitro, the 50% inhibitory concentrations (IC(50)) of ddC and cidofovir were determined using standard plaque-reduction assays. In vivo, 40 rabbits were topically inoculated in both eyes with Ad...

conclusions: according to our experiment, onion has an inhibitory effect on the growth of normal eye flora; although the duration of onion juice instillation did not show any significant effect on the group results. hence, this finding is an initiating point for further investigations into the antimicrobial properties of this herb to treat common eye infections, including conjunctivitis and ble...