Conjunctivitis due to Neisseria sicca: A case report

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. Positiv...

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Autores principales: Eser, Ilker, Akcali, Alper, Tatman-Otkun, Muserref, Taskiran-Comez, Arzu
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061680/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23552355
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.98894
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author Eser, Ilker
Akcali, Alper
Tatman-Otkun, Muserref
Taskiran-Comez, Arzu
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-40616802014-06-19 Conjunctivitis due to Neisseria sicca: A case report Eser, Ilker Akcali, Alper Tatman-Otkun, Muserref Taskiran-Comez, Arzu Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications 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. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4061680/ /pubmed/23552355 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.98894 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Eser, Ilker
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Conjunctivitis due to Neisseria sicca: A case report
title Conjunctivitis due to Neisseria sicca: A case report
title_full Conjunctivitis due to Neisseria sicca: A case report
title_fullStr Conjunctivitis due to Neisseria sicca: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Conjunctivitis due to Neisseria sicca: A case report
title_short Conjunctivitis due to Neisseria sicca: A case report
title_sort conjunctivitis due to neisseria sicca: a case report
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061680/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23552355
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.98894
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