Eye disease is a well-documented complication of HIV infection. Opportunistic infections generally comprised the majority of pre-antiretroviral therapy (ART) eye complications. With the introduction of ART, opportunistic infections diminished. However, early ART regimens were cumbersome regarding side effects and pill burden, making patient compliance difficult. Newer ART regimens are better to...

The potentially pathogenic Non-Tuberculosis Mycobacteria (NTM) are emerging nowadays which result in pulmonary and non-pulmonary infections in human. This group of bacteria consists of at least 200 different species. While the pulmonary disease is the most common form of NTM infections, NTM can cause diffused infections as well as extrapulmonary infections in every organ, such as bone marrow, s...

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...

morganella morganii is rarely isolated from nosocomial infections. however, postoperative infections due to morganella spp. were documented in literature and eye involvements of the infections usually result in severe sequels.  we present a severe case infection, which was caused by m. morganii subsp . morganii, firstly appearing as conjunctivitis and complicated by bacteremia. the infectious a...

UNLABELLED Ocular infections are common and vary from self-limiting to sight-threatening. All the structures of the eye can be infected by various microbes.The present study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of bacterial and fungal infections of the eye and also to assess the antibiotic susceptibility pattern of bacterial isolates at an eye care hospital in Bangalore, India. MATERIAL...

background: poor hygiene will provide good condition for corneal infections by opportunistic free-living amoebae (fla) in soft contact lens wearers. in the present study an amoebic keratitis due to hartmannella has been recognized in a 22-year-old girl with a history of improper soft contact lens use. she had unilateral keratitis on her left eye. her clinical signs were eye pain, redness, blurr...

The microenvironment of the CNS (eye and brain) is fertile ground for infection if barriers are breached. result pathogen invasion often devastating destruction tissues. In eye, inflammation broadly classified either as “infectious” (i.e. caused by infection) or “non-infectious”. However, increasingly, forms intraocular (IOI), which clinically appear to be “non-infectious” turn out initiated in...

Introduction Doxycycline is an antibiotic belonging to the group of tetracyclines. It is active against gram positive and gram negative bacteria. It has been on the Dutch market at least since 1973 and the oral preparation is indicated for infections of the respiratory tract, infections of the urogenital tract, infections of the skin and soft tissues, Borrelia burgdorfori infections, infections...

background and aims: epstein-barr (ebv) virus infection is very common in the population. virus belongs to the family herpesviridae, whose representatives are characterized by the ability to cause the human body latent persistent infections. the goal of study is to assess ebv infection frequency and pcr method in the choice of ebv in inflammatory eye disease, comparing with ebv presence in eye ...

BACKGROUND We investigated the contributing causes and factors leading to eye enucleation procedure among the patients referred to the ophthalmology clinic of the Center Eye Hospital in Tehran, Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the clinical records of patients referred to the ophthalmology clinic of the Center Eye Hospital in Tehran, Iran, in the past 3 years. The data re...