Table 5.
Association between the bacterial pathogens recovered from ocular specimens (n = 2599) and eyes with ocular infections treated at a tertiary eye care referral center in South India
| Name of the bacterial isolates recovered | No. of bacterial isolates recovereda | Eyelid infections |
Conjunctiva |
Orbit |
Lacrimal apparatus |
Cornea |
Sclera |
Intraocular tissues |
Panoph-thalmitis | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blepharitis | Hordeolum | Preseptal cellulitis | Conjunctivitis | Blebitis | Orbital cellulitis | Dacryocystitis | Lacrimal abscess | Canaliculus | Keratitis | Scleritis | Postoperative endophthalmitis | Posttraumatic endophthalmitis | Endogenous endophthalmitis | Postcorneal endophthalmitis | Postscleral endophthalmitis | ||||
| Total gram-positive cocci | 1553 (12) | 332 (2) | 165 | 9 | 336 | 10 | 6 | 325 (4) | 11 | 38 | 197 (5) | 6 | 86 | 22 | 2 | 4(1) | 1 | 3 | |
| Sta. aureus | 697 (2) | 230 (1) | 123 | 4 | 231 | 2 | 3 | 70(1) | 2 | 22 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| CoNS | 162 (2) | 13 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 31 (2) | 0 | 71 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Str. pneumoniae | 578 (7) | 65(1) | 24 | 1 | 91 | 0 | 1 | 205 (2) | 3 | 9 | 154 (3) | 2 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 4(1) | 1 | 1 | |
| Streptococcus pyogenes | 42 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Streptococcus viridans | 74(1) | 18 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 32(1) | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| Total gram-positive bacilli | 234 (7) | 80 (2) | 6 | 1 | 84 | 0 | 3(1) | 0 | 16(1) | 27(1) | 3 | 2 | 12(2) | ||||||
| Bacillus spp. | 27(1) | 6 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7(1) | ||||||||
| Corynebacterium spp. | 207 (6) | 74 (2) | 6 | 0 | 73 | 3(1) | 16(1) | 25(1) | 3 | 2 | 5(1) | ||||||||
| Gram-negative cocci | 169 (0) | 35 (0) | 1 | 38 | 0 | 65 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| M. lacunata | 48 | 26 | 11 | 0 | 11 | ||||||||||||||
| Ne. gonorrhea | 11 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Ne. meningitides | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| M. catarrhalis | 94 | 6 | 1 | 15 | 60 | 9 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Ac. calcoaceticus | 13 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Aerobic actinomycetes | 53 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 (1) | 26(1) | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| No. asteroides | 53 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 (1) | 26(1) | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||
| Gram-negative bacilli | 602 (3) | 46 (0) | 4 | 102 | 6 | 3 | 261 (1) | 3 | 141 (1) | 5 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 6(1) | 1 | 2 | |||
| Ps. aeruginosa | 218 | 21 | 2 | 26 | 1 | 69(1) | 3 | 76(1) | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 6(1) | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Es. coli | 24 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||
| H. influenzae | 90 | 7 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 38 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| H. parainfluenzae | 48 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 29 | 4 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| H. aegypticus | 15 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||
| En. agglomerans | 16 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| En. aerogenes | 49 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 19 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| En. cloacae | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| K.. ozaenae | 9 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| K. pneumoniae | 76 | 6 | 11 | 47 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Ci. diversus | 10 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Ci. freundic | 7 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| A.I. faecalis | 9 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Pr. mirabilis | 11 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Pr. vulgaris | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Se. marcesens | 10 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 2611 (24) | 493 (4) | 171 | 15 | 560 | 16 | 9 | 654 (6) | 14 | 65(2) | 416(8) | 20 | 104 | 45 (2) | 9 | 12(2) | 3 | 5 | |
*
Total number of isolates: number of single species of bacteria + number of two species of bacteria (number of two species of bacteria)