A newly developed 1% eye preparation of the potent antistaphylococcal antibiotic fusidic acid, showed an excellent clinical effect in 206 Egyptian children with external eye infections. The 248 patients included in the study were randomized, in the ratio 5:1, to either fusidic acid or chloramphenicol 0.5% eye drops. Both preparations were given four to six times daily for one week. Bacterial co...

In the present study, we intended to report a clinical pediatric case of thelaziasis in Korea. In addition, we briefly reviewed the literature on pediatric cases of thelaziasis in Korea. In the present case, 3 whitish, thread-like eye-worms were detected in a 6-year-old-boy living in an urban area and contracted an ocular infection known as thelaziasis incidentally during ecological agritainmen...

The Rohingyas fled from their home to escape ethnic persecution. Due status as refugees they have difficulties in accessing healthcare leading avoidable mortality and morbidity. Infectious diseases are reported be among the causes. To ease access healthcare, IMAM Response Relief Team (IMARET) provides a free monthly clinic for them. objective of this study is determine proportion infectious app...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) infection is one of the major causes keratitis. However, effective prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines against P. keratitis have yet to be developed. In this study, we explored use membrane vesicles (MVs) as a vaccine well immune sera derived from MV-immunized animals treatment for corneal infections in C57BL/6 mice. mice were intramuscularly immunized w...

The avian eye trematode Philophthalmus lachrymosus Braun, 1902 is for the first time referred naturally occurring in a non-human mammalian host. Previously, natural infections with P. lachrymosus and other species of Philophthalmus have been occasionally reported from man, with few data on experimental infections of non-human mammals. Results presented here are related to the report of two case...

BACKGROUND Clinical data have shown that tick-borne diseases caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, Bartonella spp., Coxiella burnetii, and Rickettsia spp. can affect the central nervous system, including the eye. The aim of this study was to establish a relationship between the incidence of cataract and evidence of bacterial infections transmitted by ticks. MATERIAL AND METHODS Fluid wit...

accidental infection with animal filarial worms in humans is a dilemma for clinicians and parasitolo­gists throughout the world. to date a variety of such rare parasitoses have been reported mostly in tropics and subtropics. human dirofilariasis is among those unusual zoonotic infections that occasionally have been observed in the eye and in subcutaneous areas exhibiting with nodule for­mation....

We used a naturally occurring, Chlamydia psittaci-caused eye disease in guinea pigs, guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis, as an animal model to understand both the immune response and the pathogenesis of chlamydial eye infections. When instilled into the conjunctival sac of guinea pigs that had been previously infected and were immune, viable chlamydiae or a Triton X-100-soluble extract of them...

As a result of improved treatment and patient survival, ophthalmic complications are now being seen with increasing frequency in AIDS, occurring in up to 75% of patients during the course of the disease. The eye may be involved by an AIDS-related microvasculopathy, which gives rise to cotton wool spots, and by opportunistic infections caused by a wide range of organisms, including cytomegalovir...