Case Report: A Polymicrobial Vision-Threatening Eye Infection Associated with Polysubstance Abuse
Case Report: A Polymicrobial Vision-Threatening Eye Infection Associated with Polysubstance Abuse
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DOI：
10.4269/ajtmh.20-0202
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发表时间：
2020-08-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Lesho, Emil
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作者：
Pendela, Venkata Satish;Kudaravalli, Pujitha;Lesho, Emil
我们报告一个患者的危险因素为微生物角膜炎和眼内炎，这是最初的挑战，以区分。角膜刮痕的培养产生了几种生物，包括一种不可培养的革兰氏阴性棒，最终被鉴定为阴性金氏菌。内格文金氏菌之所以如此命名，是因为大多数菌株都是在以色列南部沙漠地区内盖夫分离出来的。阴性克雷伯氏菌的流行病学仍未完全了解。我们在文献中没有发现其他关于这种微生物引起细菌性角膜炎的报道。
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.