title: Anaerobic and aerobic bacterial flora of acute conjunctivitis in children.
abstract: Aerobic and anaerobic cultures and clinical data were obtained from 126 pediatric patients with acute conjunctivitis. Similar cultures were obtained from 66 persons who did not have a conjunctival inflammation. Anaerobes were isolated from 47 patients (37.3%). In 26 cases (20.6%), they were in mixed cultures with aerobes, and in 21 cases (16.7%), they were the only isolates. Aerobes alone were recovered in 72 patients (57.1%). No bacterial growth was noted in seven patients (5.6%). The organisms recovered from eyes with conjunctivitis in statistically significant numbers were Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and anaerobic Gram-postive cocci.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D000332:Aerobiosis; D000693:Anaerobiosis; D001431:Bacteriological Techniques; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000382:microbiology; D003231:Conjunctivitis / Q000382:microbiology*; D005260:Female; D006193:Haemophilus influenzae / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D013048:Specimen Handling; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013296:Streptococcus pneumoniae / Q000302:isolation & purification