| Autor: |
Maha Abdelrahman Mowafy, Nagwa Eid Saad, Hala Mohamed El-Mofty, Mervat Gaber ElAnany, Marwa Sayed Mohamed |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />French |
| Rok vydání: |
2014 |
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| Zdroj: |
The Pan African Medical Journal, Vol 17, Iss 151 (2014) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1937-8688 |
| DOI: |
10.11604/pamj.2014.17.151.3818 |
| Popis: |
INTRODUCTION: Trachoma is a leading cause of avoidable blindness and endemic conjunctivitis in 57 countries. It infects approximately 84 million people globally, and continues to threaten over 10 % of the world's population with the risk of blindness. METHODS: This is a cross sectional descriptive study assessing patients presenting with acute conjunctivitis. A full history was taken from patients followed by examination of both eyes. A conjunctival swab was taken and a sample of tears was collected and handled at the central laboratory unit at Kasr AlAiny hospital for culture and sensitivity of the swab and ELISA for tears searching for Immunoglobulin G and Immunoglobulin M of chlamydia trachomatis. RESULTS: The prevalence of bacterial conjunctivitis encounter 45.7% and non-bacterial encounter 54.3 % of the studied group. The anti-chlamydial antibodies were positive in the tears of 31.1% of patients. While the other bacterial organisms responsible for 14.6%. CONCLUSION: The study concluded that trachoma accounts for one third of the cases of acute conjunctivitis while the other bacterial organisms responsible for about 14.6%. More than half of the cases have other causes as viral, allergic, mechanical or chemical induced conjunctivitis. |
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