title: Posttraumatic keratitis caused by Elizabethkingia meningosepticum.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To present a case of bacterial keratitis caused by Elizabethkingia meningosepticum in an eye after trauma.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A 45-year-old woman was referred to our cornea clinic for keratitis, which had developed following nonpenetrating eye trauma from a tree branch. Cultures from a corneal smear demonstrated heavy growth of E. meningosepticum. Treatment with a combination of topical moxifloxacin and topical trimethoprim/polymyxin B effectively controlled the corneal ulcer. Corneal infection resolved within 2 months, but a central corneal scar and vascularization remained.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  E. meningosepticum is an opportunistic bacterium and gives rise to severe systemic infections in immunocompromised patients. Ocular infections caused by this bacterium are extremely rare in the literature. To our knowledge, this is the first report of posttraumatic keratitis caused by E. meningosepticum.
authors.affiliation: Ophthalmology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Cukurova University, Balcalı-Adana, Turkey. elif.erdem.1979@gmail.com
authors.forename: Elif
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Erdem
authors.forename: Sibel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Abdurrahmanoglu
authors.forename: Filiz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Kibar
authors.forename: Meltem
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yagmur
authors.forename: Fatih
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Koksal
authors.forename: Reha
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ersoz
mesh_terms: D003320:Corneal Ulcer / Q000382:microbiology*; D015818:Eye Infections, Bacterial / Q000382:microbiology*; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D045826:Flavobacteriaceae Infections / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009894:Opportunistic Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*