Table 3.

Organisms isolated from culture of corneal scraping of patients (n=98) admitted with suspected microbial keratitis (n = 122 isolates)

Organism	No of isolates
Coagulase negative Staphylococcus	20
Propionibacterium acnes	17
Staphylococcus epidermidis	14
Streptococcus pneumoniae	11
Staphylococcus aureus	7
Pseudomonas aeruginosa	7
Corynebacterium	6
Moraxella species	6
Gram +ve species, mixed	6
Serratia species	3
Aerobic bacillus	3
HSV type 1	2
Saprophytic yeast	2
Other organisms, single isolates	18