Multi-resistant Enterococci and Morganella morganii: a rare cause of complicated keratitis

ABSTRACT

An eighty-five-year-old female presented with preexisting conditions of benign essential hypertension, dyslipidemia, chronic renal failure and diabetes mellitus type 2. She had gastroenteritis, pain and redness in right [blind] eye with corneal decompensation, scarring and right-eye corneal ulcer with hypopyon. Corneal scrapings sent for culture report revealed growth of Morganella Morganii and Enterococci Corneal ulcer was successfully treated with topical and oral antibiotics