Keratitis in a Child with Underlying Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis.

Case Rep Ophthalmol Med

Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus, 16150 Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia.

Published: May 2017

had rarely been reported as a causative organism for corneal ulcer and had not been described before in vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC). Generally regarded as commensals of respiratory tract particularly in young children, it had however been isolated from the corneal ulcer scraping of both adult and children. We report a case of bacterial ulcer with isolation of from the corneal scraping in a young child with underlying VKC.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436060PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/1087821DOI Listing

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