Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in a wide range of infectious agents is a growing public health threat. Birds of prey are considered indicators of the presence of AMR bacteria in their ecosystem because of their predatory behaviour. Only few data are reported in the literature on AMR strains isolated from animals housed in zoos and none about AMR in raptors housed in zoological gardens. This stu...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the conjunctival and nasal flora and the antibiotic susceptibility profiles of isolates from patients undergoing cataract surgery. DESIGN Observational and cross-sectional study. SETTING A single-centre study in Taiwan. PARTICIPANTS 128 consecutive patients precataract surgery. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES METHODS Conjunctival and nasal cultures were p...

OBJECTIVE The effect of eyedrops for glaucoma on conjunctival bacterial flora was investigated by comparing a group of patients treated with such eyedrops for at least 1 year to a control group that did not use eyedrops. METHODS In both groups, bacterial culture came from scrapings of the conjunctival sac, and the bacterial infection rate and pattern of drug resistance were determined. Findin...

PURPOSE To study the aerobic bacterial microbiota of the conjunctiva in diabetic patients with regard to the management of diabetes, assessed using glycated hemoglobin levels. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted using conjunctival smears of diabetic patients from both sexes and with different ages, residing in two different Brazilian cities (Sorocaba and Rio Branco). A control group...

IN the past 13 years there has been a notable increase in the number of reports of cases of ocular mycosis, a large proportion of which originate in North America (Haggerty and Zimmerman, 1958; Mikami and Stemmermann, 1958; Chick and Conant, 1962). The increase has apparently been associated with the increasing use of topical corticosteroids and wide-spectrum antibiotics (Hogan, Thygeson, and K...

Virchow first introduced the term mycosis for fungal infections. Leber (I 870) first described a case ofkeratomycosis due to Aspergillus and first established an early clinical diagnosis by mycological methods. Since his report more than thirty species of saprophytic fungi have been identified as causative agents of keratomycosis. A review of the literature for the last 20 years shows an increa...

Purpose To investigate the effects of the long-term use of prostaglandin analogs for glaucoma treatment on the indigenous flora of the conjunctiva. Methods Bacterial isolates were collected from the conjunctival sacs of 68 patients at Miyata Eye Hospital from February to September 2014, who had been receiving continuous monotherapy with prostaglandin analogs for glaucoma for at least 1 year. ...

Background/Objective: Hyperphosphatemia is the consequence of end stage renal failure. Inadequate control of serum phosphorus results in elevated Ca×P product with subsequent soft tissue deposition in the form of conjunctival and corneal calcification.  In this study, we evaluated the relationship of conjunctival and corneal calcification with secondary hyperparathyroidism in hemodialysis patie...