Causes of conjunctivitis and keratoconjunctivitis in Karachi, Pakistan
| Autor: | J. Wania, M. Siddique, U. Thaker, M. Shah, L. Cornell, S. Darougar, R.M. Woodland |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
| Předmět: |
Keratoconjunctivitis
Infectious Male medicine.medical_specialty medicine.drug_class Population Eye casualty Antibiotics medicine.disease_cause Adenovirus Infections Human Conjunctivitis Bacterial Conjunctivitis Viral Humans Medicine Pakistan Candida albicans education Keratoconjunctivitis education.field_of_study biology business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Herpes Simplex General Medicine Chlamydia Infections biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Virology Dermatology Infectious Diseases Herpes simplex virus Bacterial etiology Trachoma Female Parasitology business |
| Zdroj: | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 86:317-320 |
| ISSN: | 0035-9203 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0035-9203(92)90328-a |
| Popis: | The causes of conjunctivitis and keratoconjunctivitis in 388 patients who attended eye casualty departments in Karachi, Pakistan, during a 5 month period were investigated. Most of these infections were diagnosed as adenovirus (291, 75%) or bacterial (71, 18.3%). Of the remainder, 9 cases (2.3%) were caused by herpes simplex virus and 7 (1.8%) by Chalmydia trachomatis. There was no evidence of typical active trachoma in this urban population. Bacteria or Candida albicans were also grown from 44 of the adenovirus cases (15%). Many of the bacteria grown from eyes in this study were resistant to antibiotics, probably because of inadequate and/or inappropriate self-medication with antibiotics in this community. |
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