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Clinical Case Notes
Author(s) -
Essex Rohan W,
Charles Patrick GP,
Allen Penelope J
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
clinical and experimental ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.3
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1442-9071
pISSN - 1442-6404
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2004.00855.x
Subject(s) - endophthalmitis , stenotrophomonas maltophilia , medicine , chryseobacterium , citrobacter freundii , bacillus cereus , microbiology and biotechnology , stenotrophomonas , citrobacter , pseudomonas aeruginosa , pseudomonas , surgery , bacteria , klebsiella pneumoniae , biology , enterobacteriaceae , biochemistry , 16s ribosomal rna , escherichia coli , genetics , gene
Three cases of post‐traumatic endophthalmitis caused by unusual bacteria are presented. The pathogens identified were: (i) Bacillus cereus and Citrobacter freundii ; (ii) Pseudomonas fluorescens ; and (iii) Chryseobacterium meningosepticum and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia . Two of these pathogens have not previously been reported to cause endophthalmitis. The available literature regarding the individual cases is summarized and a brief discussion of post‐traumatic endophthalmitis is presented, with reference to a recently published large series at the authors’ institution.