Table 6.
Isolated bacteria | Control (n=12)
|
Moderate (n=12)
|
Severe (n=10)
|
P-value | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Surface | Deep | Surface | Deep | Surface | Deep | ||
S. epidermidis | 5 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 6 | |
S. warneri | 1 | ||||||
C. macginleyi | 2 | 3 | |||||
C. pseudodiphtheriticum | 1 | ||||||
Micrococcaceae | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Microbacterium | 1 | ||||||
Micrococcus luteus | 1 | ||||||
Paenibacillus | 1 | ||||||
Xanthomonadaceae | 1 | ||||||
Bacillus thermoamylovorans | 1 | ||||||
Bacillus cereus | 1 | ||||||
None | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | |
Positive isolation, n (%) | 6 (50.0%) | 6 (50.0%) | 8 (66.7%) | 7 (58.3%) | 7 (70.0%) | 8 (80.0%) | |
Bacterial discordance | |||||||
None (0%) | 8 (50.0%) | 4 (33.3%) | 3 (30.0%) | ||||
Half (50%) | 4 (50.0%) | 6 (50.0%) | 2 (20.0%) | ||||
Total (100%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (16.7%) | 5 (50.0%) | 0.035* |
Notes: n (%): number of eyes (percentage in the groups of control and bacterial severity).
P<0.05.