Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
Official Publication of Innovative Education and Scientific Research Foundation
Official Publication of Innovative Education and Scientific Research Foundation
Print ISSN: 2395-1443
Online ISSN: 2395-1451
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Indian Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology (IJCEO) is open access, a peer-reviewed medical journal, published quarterly, online, and in print, by the Innovative Education and Scientific Research Foundation (IESRF) since 2015. To fulfil our aim of rapid dissemination of knowledge, we publish articles ‘Ahead of Print’ on acceptance. In addition, the journal allows free access (Open Access) to its content, which is likely to attract more readers and citations of articles published in IJCEO. Manuscripts must be prepared in more...Original Article
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Volume : 6, Issue : 1, Year : 2020
Article Page : 138-144
https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijceo.2020.030
Abstract
Aim: To compare the conjunctival flora of diabetic individuals and non-diabetic individuals and assess
their antibiotic sensitivity pattern.
Materials and Methods: A hospital based cross-sectional and descriptive study was carried out from
September 2016 to August 2018 with 92 patients of age group from 40-70 years, to assess the conjunctival
flora and antibiotic sensitivity pattern in diabetic and non-diabetic individuals without any pre-existing
ocular diseases and adnexal disease.
Result: The rate of positive culture in Group A (Diabetics) was significantly higher as compared to Group
B (Non-Diabetics) (21.7% vs. 4.3% respectively) (p<0> higher incidence of the bacteria, Staphylococcus epidermidis in Group A (Diabetics) as compared to
Group B (Non-Diabetics) (p<0> A (Diabetics) showed the following observations - in Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphlococcusaureus
maximum sensitivity was seen with Gentamicin.
Conclusion: A higher positive culture rate was seen in diabetic individuals as compared to non-diabetic
individuals. It was then concluded that, as gentamicin shows maximum sensitivity to gram-posit ive and
gram-negative organisms, Gentamicin is the drug of choice which takes cares of gram positive as well as
gram negative bacteria and can be considered as routine pre-operative topical medication.
Pre-operative cataract work up.
Keywords: Conjunctival commensals, Culture sensitivity, Glycosylated haemoglobin, Pre-operative cataract work up.
How to cite : Ashtamkar S, Maheshgauri R, Vadodaria B, Motwani D, Sharma A, Analysis of conjunctival flora in diabetic and non-diabetic individuals and their antibiotic sensitivity pattern. Indian J Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2020;6(1):138-144
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