Preferred Practice Pattern® guidelines are developed by the Academy's H. Dunbar Hoskins
Jr., MD Center for Quality Eye Care without any external financial support. Authors and …

Purpose: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are an essential part of innate immunity that
evolved in most living organisms over 2.6 billion years to combat microbial challenge. These …

OBJECTIVE: To study the distribution, current trends, and patterns of resistance to
antimicrobial agents of bacterial keratitis isolates in South Florida. DESIGN: Retrospective …

Bacterial keratitis is a common corneal infection that is treated with topical antimicrobials. By
the time of presentation there may already be severe visual loss from corneal ulceration and …

Post-traumatic endophthalmitis is an uncommon yet devastating complication of an open
globe injury. Risk factors include presence of an intraocular foreign body (IOFB), lens …

Importance Antibiotic resistance in ocular infections can affect treatment outcomes.
Surveillance data on evolving antibacterial susceptibility patterns inform the treatment of …

methods. One group of bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa [PA], Staphylococcus aureus
[SA], and Staphylococcus epidermidis [SE]) was tested by using Kirby-Bauer discs with (1) …

Abstract Introduction Since 2009, the Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring in Ocular
Microorganisms (ARMOR) surveillance study has been assessing in vitro antibiotic …

Background Severe bacterial keratitis (BK) typically requires intensive antimicrobial therapy.
Empiric therapy is usually with a topical fluoroquinolone or fortified aminoglycoside …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa secretes multiple proteases that have been implicated as
virulence factors and the detection of each specific enzyme can be difficult to determine …