June 2017
Volume 58, Issue 8
Open Access
ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   June 2017
Neonatal bacterial conjunctivitis in Korea in the 21st century
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • JUNWOO PARK
    Ophthalmology, Haeundae Paik Hospital, Busan, Korea (the Republic of)
  • Kang Yeun Pak
    Ophthalmology, Haeundae Paik Hospital, Busan, Korea (the Republic of)
  • Jong Soo Lee
    Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea (the Republic of)
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships   JUNWOO PARK, None; Kang Yeun Pak, None; Jong Soo Lee, None
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science June 2017, Vol.58, 4359. doi:
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      JUNWOO PARK, Kang Yeun Pak, Jong Soo Lee; Neonatal bacterial conjunctivitis in Korea in the 21st century. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2017;58(8):4359.

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Abstract

Purpose : We have investigated the microbial cause and antibiotic susceptibility of neonatal bacterial conjunctivitis in Korean patients in the 21st century.

Methods : We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients diagnosed with neonatal bacterial conjunctivitis between January 2000 and December 2015. We recorded the organism, antibiotic susceptibility, and antibiotics used.

Results : A total of 82 neonates were included in the study (53 male, 29 female), with a mean age of 17.5 ± 7.1 days. The most commonly isolated organisms were Staphylococcus aureus (43 cases, 52.4%), coagulase-negative staphylococci (11 cases, 13.4%), Staphylococcus epidermidis (11 cases, 13.4%), Serratia marcescens (4 cases, 4.9%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (4 cases, 4.9%), and Enterobacter cloacae (3 cases, 3.7%). We found no cases of Neisseria gonorrhea or Chlamydia trachomatis infection. Resistance to methicillin (83.7%), macrolide (81.4%), and aminoglycoside (23.3%) was observed in patients with S. aureus infection. Conjunctivitis that did not improve with erythromycin or tobramycin generally improved with the additional use of tosufloxacin.

Conclusions : The prevalence of neonatal gonococcal or chlamydial conjunctivitis has decreased in the 21st century. However, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus has been increasing but these cases are responsive to tosufloxacin.

This is an abstract that was submitted for the 2017 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2017.

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