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Actinomyces viscosus postoperative endophthalmitis
F J Scarano1, M S Ruddat, A Robinson
1Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Hartford Hospital, CT, USA.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|June 4, 1999
Abstract:
Endophthalmitis, attributable to Actinomyces viscosus, developed in a 78-year-old man after cataract surgery. Postoperative endophthalmitis with this organism is a rare occurrence. This report emphasizes the importance of the Actinomyces species as potential eye pathogens and presents antimicrobial susceptibility data for the isolate.