Case report: A polymicrobial vision-threatening eye infection associated with polysubstance abuse
Department
Infectious Diseases
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Abstract
We report a patient with risk factors for both microbial keratitis and endophthalmitis, which were initially challenging to distinguish. Cultures of corneal scrapings yielded several organisms, including an uncultivable Gram-negative rod, eventually identified as Kingella negevensis. Kingella negevensis is so named because most strains have been isolated in the Negev, a desert region of southern Israel. The epidemiology of K. negevensis remains incompletely understood. We found no other reports in the literature of this organism causing microbial keratitis.
First Page
672
Last Page
674
DOI
10.4269/ajtmh.20-0202
Volume
103
Issue
2
Publication Date
8-1-2020
Recommended Citation
Pendela, V., Kudaravalli, P., Chhabria, M., & Lesho, E. (2020). Case report: A polymicrobial vision-threatening eye infection associated with polysubstance abuse. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 103 (2), 672-674. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0202