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Acute Bacterial Conjunctivitis

Bacteriology and Clinical Implications

Pakit Vichyanond

Labette County Medical Center, Parsons, Kansas

Quinzetta Brown

Labette County Medical Center, Parsons, Kansas

Doug Jackson

Labette County Medical Center, Parsons, Kansas

We report the results of eye culture specimens, obtained from patients under 20 years of age, submitted to the Bacteriology Department of our institution from January 1 through April 30, 1983. A total of 72 specimens were positive for one or more strains of bacteria. The most commonly isolated bacteria was Hemophilus influenzae (34 strains, 42%), followed by Staphylococcus epidermidis (11 strains, 13.75%) and Streptococcus pneumoniae (9 strains, 11.25%). Mean age of patients with H. influenzae (excluding a 20-year-old patient) was 15 months with standard deviation of 13 months. Chloramphenicol and tetracycline showed excellent in vitro activity against bacteria of all age groups. Tetracycline may prove to be the drug of choice for the treatment of acute conjunctivitis if comparative clinical data support its in vitro superiority.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 25, No. 10, 506-509 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288602501004
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