Table 3 Antimicrobial treatment of external ocular and periocular infections in a Ghanaian ophthalmic population.
Types of clinical presentation | Bacteria culture results n (%) | Antimicrobial therapy employed in treating external ocular and periocular infections n (%) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Positive | Negative | RFR | CIP | GTM | PoB | NM | TBM | TX | OTX | OFC | FX | |
Conjunctivitis | 55 (94.8) | 3 (5.2) | 0 (0.0) | 22 (31.9) | 2 (2.9) | 29 (42.0) | 22 (31.9) | 13 (18.8) | 16 (23.2) | 12 (2.6) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
Blepharoconjuntivitis | 11 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (18.2) | 0 (0.0) | 8 (72.7) | 5 (45.5) | 1 (9.1) | 2 (18.2) | 3 (27.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
Keratoconjunctivitis | 12 (92.3) | 1 (7.7) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (15.4) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (38.5) | 9 (69.2) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (30.8) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
Ophthalmia neonatorum | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
Ocular trauma | 7 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (14.3) | 3 (42.9) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (14.3) | 1 (14.3) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (28.6) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (14.3) |
Preseptal cellulitis | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) |
Hordeolum | 3 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (33.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (33.3) | 1 (33.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (100.0) |
Keratitis | 8 (88.9) | 1 (11.1) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (66.7) | 1 (11.1) | 2 (22.2) | 1 (11.1) | 1 (11.1) | 3 (33.3) | 2 (22.2) | 1 (11.1) | 0 (0.0) |
Total | 98 (95.1) | 5 (4.4) | 1 (0.9) | 36 (31.6) | 3 (2.6) | 47 (41.2) | 40 (35.1) | 16 (14.0) | 28 (24.6) | 18 (15.8) | 1 (0.9) | 5 (4.4) |
