Resistant corneal ulcers; Clinico-bacteriological study

ABSTRACT

This study was carried upon 64 patients of resistant corneal ulceration of two weeks duration. The patients were exposed to thorough clinical examination with searching the possible predisposing factors, scraping the ulcers and Gramstain then inoculation of the scrapings into different bacteriological and fungal media for cultures. The cultures revealed that 453% 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. Staphylococcus aureus was the common organism and Aspergillus was the common fungus isolated