ArticleClinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)2018
Microbiological study of dacryocystitis in northwest of Iran.
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- Prevalence of bacterial eye infections and multidrug resistance patterns among eye infection suspected patients in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Pooled it
- Acute dacryocystitis: Microbiological profiles from an infectious diseases perspective.International ophthalmology · 2026Article
- Bacterial pathogens and antimicrobial susceptibility in ocular infections: A study at Boru-Meda General Hospital, Dessie, Ethiopia.BMC ophthalmology · 2024Article
- Microbiology of acute bacterial dacryocystitis: a tertiary institutional experience in South Australia.International ophthalmology · 2024Article
- Microbiological isolates and associated complications of dacryocystitis and canaliculitis in a prominent tertiary ophthalmic teaching hospital in northern China.BMC ophthalmology · 2024Article
- Microbiology and Antimicrobial Susceptibility in Adult Dacryocystitis.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Article
- Microbial spectrum and antibiotic sensitivity in infantile dacryocystitis.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe prevalence of bacterial pathogens isolated from patients with acute and chronic dacryocystitis and the pattern of antibiotic susceptibility tests are varied in each region. Moreover, the management of dacryocystitis is only based on clinical observations without microbiological evaluation. The present study aimed to identify epidemiologic and etiologic factors of dacryocystitis in our geographical area. MATERIALS AND
methodsThis cross-sectional and analytical study was carried out in the ophthalmology department of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences (northwest of Iran) during 2016-2017. Nasolacrimal duct discharges were inoculated to culture media including blood agar, eosin methylene blue, chocolate agar, and Sabouraud agar for the determination of microbial agents. Disc diffusion method with MAST antibiogram discs was used for antibiotic susceptibility tests, according to the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, 2017.
resultsOf the total 129 patients enrolled in the study, 34.1% had acute dacryocystitis and 65.9% showed chronic type. The result of culture was positive in 75.2% of patients.
conclusionThe present study is useful for determining the appropriate antibiotic for systemic treatment of dacryocystitis in our region. Ciprofloxacin and vancomycin are the most sensitive antibiotics against the most common isolated microorganisms in both age groups (under and above 10 years) that can be used for empirical therapy of dacryocystitis in both acute and chronic type.
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