Endophthalmitis resulting from gonococcal keratoconjunctivitis

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a global pathogen with significant morbidity. This bacterium is one of the common causes of sexually transmitted diseases; however, ocular gonococcal infection is rare. The gonococcal ocular infection can lead to ulcerative keratitis and/or corneal perforation. We report a c...

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Autores principales: Bollam, R., Yassin, M., Phan, T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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First Clinical Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7372155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32714558
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100724
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description Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a global pathogen with significant morbidity. This bacterium is one of the common causes of sexually transmitted diseases; however, ocular gonococcal infection is rare. The gonococcal ocular infection can lead to ulcerative keratitis and/or corneal perforation. We report a case of endophthalmitis resulting from gonococcal keratoconjunctivitis. Sexual transmission could not be proven in this patient.
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spelling pubmed-73721552020-07-23 Endophthalmitis resulting from gonococcal keratoconjunctivitis Bollam, R. Yassin, M. Phan, T. New Microbes New Infect First Clinical Case Report Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a global pathogen with significant morbidity. This bacterium is one of the common causes of sexually transmitted diseases; however, ocular gonococcal infection is rare. The gonococcal ocular infection can lead to ulcerative keratitis and/or corneal perforation. We report a case of endophthalmitis resulting from gonococcal keratoconjunctivitis. Sexual transmission could not be proven in this patient. Elsevier 2020-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7372155/ /pubmed/32714558 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100724 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Endophthalmitis resulting from gonococcal keratoconjunctivitis
title_full Endophthalmitis resulting from gonococcal keratoconjunctivitis
title_fullStr Endophthalmitis resulting from gonococcal keratoconjunctivitis
title_full_unstemmed Endophthalmitis resulting from gonococcal keratoconjunctivitis
title_short Endophthalmitis resulting from gonococcal keratoconjunctivitis
title_sort endophthalmitis resulting from gonococcal keratoconjunctivitis
topic First Clinical Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7372155/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32714558
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nmni.2020.100724
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