Trends in the epidemiological and microbiological profiles of infectious keratitis in southeastern Brazil.

Carolina Saliba de FreitasMarcelo Oliveira MesquitaMayara Seyko Kaczorowski SasakiAlice Zaidan AzevedoArtur Willian Caldeira Abreu VelosoMarco Antônio Guarino TanureDaniel Vítor Vasconcelos-Santos

Published in: Arquivos brasileiros de oftalmologia (2022)

For the most part, our hospital treated patients with severe microbial keratitis. Despite identifying gram-positive bacteria in most of the isolates, we also frequently identified gram-negative rods and fungi. Our susceptibility results support prescribing a combination of vancomycin and amikacin as an effective empirical therapeutic regimen to treat microbial keratitis.

Keyphrases

gram negative
multidrug resistant
microbial community
primary care
adverse drug
healthcare
early onset
methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus
emergency department
genetic diversity
newly diagnosed
drug induced