Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (Jan 2014)
Conjunctivitis due to Neisseria sicca: A case report
- Ilker Eser,
- Alper Akcali,
- Muserref Tatman-Otkun,
- Arzu Taskiran-Comez
Affiliations
- Ilker Eser
- Alper Akcali
- Muserref Tatman-Otkun
- Arzu Taskiran-Comez
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.98894
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 62,
no. 3
pp. 350 – 352
Abstract
We report the first case, in Medline-based literature, of conjunctivitis caused by gram negative diplococcus, Neisseria sicca. Although it is not widely accepted as such, isolation from cultures of repeated eye swab samples suggests that N. sicca may be a pathogen in conjunctival infections. Positive culture for this organism should not be readily dismissed. Such conjunctivitis responded favorably to treatment with netilmicin eye drops.
Keywords
- Clinical profile
- Indian population
- optic neuritis treatment trial
- optic neuritis
- Decompression of the orbit
- diplopia
- orbit
- thyroid exophthalmos
- thyroid ophthalmopathy
- Limbus incision
- subconjunctival incision
- sutureless manual small-incision cataract surgery
- wound construction
- Central retinal vein occlusion
- intravitrealbevacizumab
- intravitrealtriamcinolone acetonide
- macular edema
- Contrast sensitivity
- fixation
- microperimeter
- normative data
- retinal sensitivity
- Optical coherence tomography
- optic disc pit
- retinal detachment
- retinoschisis
- Homocysteine
- retinal vein occlusion
- visual impairment
- Diabetic macular edema
- monocyte chemoattractant protein-1
- soluble intracellular adhesion molecule-1
- vascular endothelial growth factor
- Compressive optic neuropathy
- humphrey visual field
- ischemic optic neuropathy
- multifocal visual evoked potential
- optic neuritis
- Age
- body mass index
- gender
- high density lipoprotein
- intraocular pressure
- lipid profiles
- total cholesterol
- triglyceride
- Capsular tension ring
- cataract
- intraocular lens
- myopia
- phacoemulsification
- posterior capsular opacification
- Ethnicity
- Indian
- macular thickness
- normative
- retinal nerve fiber layer
- Ocular torticollis
- superior oblique palsy
- surgery
- Barriers to follow-up
- pediatric cataract
- visual outcome
- Cataract
- intracameral mydriatic solution
- no preoperative mydriatic
- phacoemulsification
- Disc edema
- neem oil
- putamen
- toxin-induced encephalopathy
- Toxic Optic Neuropathy Secondary to Consumption of Neem Oil
- Absent thumb
- craniofacial defects
- limbal dermoid
- Nager syndrome
- Keratitis
- Rhodotorula sp
- Polymerase chain reaction
- Atypical
- cholesterol granuloma
- orbit
- Capsular block syndrome
- optic neuropathy
- phacoemulsification
- Haptic fracture
- posterior chamber intraocular lens fracture
- spontaneous fracture
- Bacterial conjunctivitis
- conjunctivitis
- gram negative diplococcus
- Neisseria sicca
- netilmicin
