Kingella kingae Keratitis in a Child with Underlying Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis

Kingella kingae had rarely been reported as a causative organism for corneal ulcer and had not been described before in vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC). Generally regarded as commensals of respiratory tract particularly in young children, it had however been isolated from the corneal ulcer scrapin...

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Autores principales: Nurul-Laila, Salim, Chai, Khai-Siang, Liza-Sharmini, Ahmad Tajudin, Shatriah, Ismail
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28546880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1087821
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author Nurul-Laila, Salim
Chai, Khai-Siang
Liza-Sharmini, Ahmad Tajudin
Shatriah, Ismail
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description Kingella kingae had rarely been reported as a causative organism for corneal ulcer and had not been described before in vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC). Generally regarded as commensals of respiratory tract particularly in young children, it had however been isolated from the corneal ulcer scraping of both adult and children. We report a case of bacterial ulcer with isolation of Kingella kingae from the corneal scraping in a young child with underlying VKC.
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spelling pubmed-54360602017-05-25 Kingella kingae Keratitis in a Child with Underlying Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis Nurul-Laila, Salim Chai, Khai-Siang Liza-Sharmini, Ahmad Tajudin Shatriah, Ismail Case Rep Ophthalmol Med Case Report Kingella kingae had rarely been reported as a causative organism for corneal ulcer and had not been described before in vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC). Generally regarded as commensals of respiratory tract particularly in young children, it had however been isolated from the corneal ulcer scraping of both adult and children. We report a case of bacterial ulcer with isolation of Kingella kingae from the corneal scraping in a young child with underlying VKC. Hindawi 2017 2017-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC5436060/ /pubmed/28546880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1087821 Text en Copyright © 2017 Salim Nurul-Laila et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nurul-Laila, Salim
Chai, Khai-Siang
Liza-Sharmini, Ahmad Tajudin
Shatriah, Ismail
Kingella kingae Keratitis in a Child with Underlying Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis
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title_full Kingella kingae Keratitis in a Child with Underlying Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis
title_fullStr Kingella kingae Keratitis in a Child with Underlying Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis
title_full_unstemmed Kingella kingae Keratitis in a Child with Underlying Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis
title_short Kingella kingae Keratitis in a Child with Underlying Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis
title_sort kingella kingae keratitis in a child with underlying vernal keratoconjunctivitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28546880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1087821
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