The aim of this study was to test the diagnostic feasibility of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detection of infections with Chlamydia trachomatis in eye swabs from patients with conjunctivitis, and to establish the basic technique of the PCR for epidemiological survey. The results of the PCR were compared with the Mikro Trak immunofluorescence assay (IFA). From 49 specimens of patients...

Conjunctivitis (Pink eye) is often infectious and caused by either bacterial or viral infections. Ampicillin, gentamicin, nitrofurantoin and cephalexin resistant Enterobacter agglomerans and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were isolated from two cases of acute conjunctivitis in swamp buffaloes in Nagaland,. Treatment with tetracycline eye drop resulted in cure within three days. Isolation of multiple dr...

was epoch-making), general anatomy ; sociological enquiry; working out the incidence of disease as affected by age, season of the year and by the social status of the subject; causes of blindness; bacteriology; simple and purulent conjunctivitis ; angular conjunctivitis ; tuberculosis; the lymph follicles of the conjunctiva; trachoma and its treatment; phtyctenar conjunctivitis; spring catarrh ...

Acute conjunctIvitIS is the most common eye infection encountered in clinical practice. The use of topical chloramphenicol! gentamicin in the empirical treatment of this condition is widely practised. The use of chloramphenical in conjunctivitis cases has been recommended!. There is no published data on the types of bacteria causing acute conjuncnvltls In Malaysia. The results of studies done e...

Strains of adenovirus type 4 (Ad4) isolated from patients with acute conjunctivitis were studied by DNA restriction analysis. The strains were isolated between July and December 1990 in Japan. All 63 isolates of Ad4 were identified as the genome type Ad4a. This study showed that the same Ad4 genome type, Ad4a, caused acute viral conjunctivitis, even in different areas of Japan.

Fusidic acid 1% and chloramphenicol 0.5% eye drops were in a randomized, single-blind manner given as a one-week treatment to out-patients with acute, purulent conjunctivitis. A clinical success was recorded in 84% (102/121) of patients receiving fusidic acid and in 81% (104/129) of patients receiving chloramphenicol. More patients (14%) receiving chloramphenicol complained of trivial side effe...

BACKGROUND Conjunctivitis is a relatively common condition of the eye that can be caused by a number of different pathogens including bacteria and viruses. Clinical differentiation between adenoviral and bacterial conjunctivitis is difficult, often resulting in misdiagnosis and the provision of inappropriate treatment. METHODS A cost-effectiveness analysis was performed from a societal perspe...