Four patients out of eight, who underwent cataract surgery in the Ophtalmology unit of a large roman hospital, developed severe endophtalmitis. Three days after surgery critical conditions of the affected eye in two patients (both women aged 66 and 82) dictated ocular evisceration. B. cereus was isolated from the eviscerated tissues. The two isolated strains shared antibiogram pattern. Polymerase Chain Reaction is still in course. B. cereus was also isolated from a dust sample taken in the sterilization room. The epidemiological investigation team was alerted only three days after surgery, when all surgical materials had already been sterilized or discarded. The exact mechanism of transmission could therefore not be identified.
Endoftalmite post-chirurgica da Bacillus cereus / Fara, Gaetano; Orsi, Giovanni Battista; Venditti, Mario; DE SIMONI, E; Filadoro, F; Tarsitani, G.. - In: VIEW & REVIEW HOSPITAL. - ISSN 1124-3449. - STAMPA. - 3:(1998), pp. 4-11.
Endoftalmite post-chirurgica da Bacillus cereus.
FARA, Gaetano;ORSI, Giovanni Battista;VENDITTI, Mario;
1998
Abstract
Four patients out of eight, who underwent cataract surgery in the Ophtalmology unit of a large roman hospital, developed severe endophtalmitis. Three days after surgery critical conditions of the affected eye in two patients (both women aged 66 and 82) dictated ocular evisceration. B. cereus was isolated from the eviscerated tissues. The two isolated strains shared antibiogram pattern. Polymerase Chain Reaction is still in course. B. cereus was also isolated from a dust sample taken in the sterilization room. The epidemiological investigation team was alerted only three days after surgery, when all surgical materials had already been sterilized or discarded. The exact mechanism of transmission could therefore not be identified.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
