Case Reports in Ophthalmology (Dec 2018)

Postoperative Late-Onset Endophthalmitis Caused by Leishmania donovani: A Case Report

  • Bojan Kozomara,
  • Ernesta Potkonjak,
  • Ratimir Lazic,
  • Sanja Savicic,
  • Nikica Gabric

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1159/000495001
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 3
pp. 484 – 486

Abstract

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Leishmania donovani is a human blood parasite that belongs to the genus Leishmania. We would like to present a case of late Leishmania donovani endophthalmitis in one eye of a patient that underwent simultaneous bilateral grade 3 cataract surgery.

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