Table 6.
Differences of bacterial flora isolated from segmental Meibomian secretions
| 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.