Resistant corneal ulcers; clinico bacteriological study

ABSTRACT

This study was carried upon 64 patients of resistant corneal ulceration of 2 weeks duration. The patients were exposed to clinical examination with searching the possible predisposing factors, scraping the ulcers and Gram stain then inoculation of the scrapings into different bacteriological and fungal media for cultures. The cultures revealed that 45.3% of the cases were bacterial in origin, 17.2% were fungal, 4.7% of cases were mixed bacterial and fungal and 6.3 of the cases were due to acanthamoeba