Corynebacterium jeikeium as an Unusual Cause of Keratitis: A Case Report From a Tertiary Care Hospital in Chhattisgarh, India

Bacterial keratitis is a serious, potentially sight-threatening complication in neglected cases of corneal trauma. Few bacteria and fungi are implicated in the pathogenesis of bacterial keratitis after trauma; however, keratitis by an opportunistic organism is rare. We report here a case of keratiti...

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Autores principales: Sahu, Vijaya, Mallika Pathak, Madhu, Das, Padma, Ravi, Ashik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Ophthalmology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8722740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35003993
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20164
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author Sahu, Vijaya
Mallika Pathak, Madhu
Das, Padma
Ravi, Ashik
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description Bacterial keratitis is a serious, potentially sight-threatening complication in neglected cases of corneal trauma. Few bacteria and fungi are implicated in the pathogenesis of bacterial keratitis after trauma; however, keratitis by an opportunistic organism is rare. We report here a case of keratitis caused by Corynebacterium jeikeium (C. jeikeium) after accidental trauma with rice grains. The patient presented to us with chronic keratitis, which responded to 5% fortified vancomycin eye drops after microbiological investigation and drug sensitivity.
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spelling pubmed-87227402022-01-06 Corynebacterium jeikeium as an Unusual Cause of Keratitis: A Case Report From a Tertiary Care Hospital in Chhattisgarh, India Sahu, Vijaya Mallika Pathak, Madhu Das, Padma Ravi, Ashik Cureus Ophthalmology Bacterial keratitis is a serious, potentially sight-threatening complication in neglected cases of corneal trauma. Few bacteria and fungi are implicated in the pathogenesis of bacterial keratitis after trauma; however, keratitis by an opportunistic organism is rare. We report here a case of keratitis caused by Corynebacterium jeikeium (C. jeikeium) after accidental trauma with rice grains. The patient presented to us with chronic keratitis, which responded to 5% fortified vancomycin eye drops after microbiological investigation and drug sensitivity. Cureus 2021-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8722740/ /pubmed/35003993 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20164 Text en Copyright © 2021, Sahu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Ophthalmology
Sahu, Vijaya
Mallika Pathak, Madhu
Das, Padma
Ravi, Ashik
Corynebacterium jeikeium as an Unusual Cause of Keratitis: A Case Report From a Tertiary Care Hospital in Chhattisgarh, India
title Corynebacterium jeikeium as an Unusual Cause of Keratitis: A Case Report From a Tertiary Care Hospital in Chhattisgarh, India
title_full Corynebacterium jeikeium as an Unusual Cause of Keratitis: A Case Report From a Tertiary Care Hospital in Chhattisgarh, India
title_fullStr Corynebacterium jeikeium as an Unusual Cause of Keratitis: A Case Report From a Tertiary Care Hospital in Chhattisgarh, India
title_full_unstemmed Corynebacterium jeikeium as an Unusual Cause of Keratitis: A Case Report From a Tertiary Care Hospital in Chhattisgarh, India
title_short Corynebacterium jeikeium as an Unusual Cause of Keratitis: A Case Report From a Tertiary Care Hospital in Chhattisgarh, India
title_sort corynebacterium jeikeium as an unusual cause of keratitis: a case report from a tertiary care hospital in chhattisgarh, india
topic Ophthalmology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8722740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35003993
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20164
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