ANAEROBIC AND AEROBIC BACTERIOLOGY OF ACUTE CONJUNCTIVITIS

  • 1 January 1979
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 11  (3) , 389-393
Abstract
Aerobic and anaerobic cultures and clinical data were obtained from 131 patients presenting with acute conjunctivitis. Similar cultures were obtained from 60 noninflamed individuals. Anaerobes were isolated from 66 patients, 51 times in mixed culture with aerobes and 15 times (11.5%) as the only isolates. Aerobes only were recovered in 54 patients. The organisms statistically significantly more commonly recovered from eyes with conjunctivitis were Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae, Peptostreptococcus and Propionibacterium acnes. No statistical difference was present between the bacterial flora of the eyes with unilateral conjunctivitis when compared to their uninvolved mates in 20 cases in which only 1 eye was involved.

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