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Table 2 Prevalence of bacterial pathogens across the different clinical features of ocular infections

From: Bacterial isolates and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern among patients with external ocular infections at Borumeda hospital, Northeast Ethiopia

 

Type of eye infection

Total (%)

Bacterial isolate

Belpharitis

Conjuctivitis

Belpharo-conjunctivitis

Dacrocystitis

(n = 47)

(n = 69)

(n = 34)

(n = 10)

CoNS

22(46.8 %)

21(30.4 %)

7(20.6 %)

1(10 %)

51(31.9 %)

S. aureus

6(12.8 %)

6(8.7 %)

7(20.6 %)

2(20 %)

21(13.1 %)

S. pneumoniae

1(2.1 %)

7(10.1 %)

2(5.9 %)

0

10(6.2 %)

Viridian streptococci

0

2(2.9 %)

1(2.9 %)

0

3(1.9 %)

S. pyogenes

0

3(4.3 %)

1(2.9 %)

2(20 %)

6(3.8 %)

S. agalactiae

0

0

1(2.9 %)

0

1(.6 %)

Enterococci spp

0

0

1(2.9 %)

0

1(.6 %)

E.coli

0

0

0

1(10 %)

1(.6 %)

p. aeruginosa

0

1(1.4 %)

0

0

1(0.6 %)

K. pneumoniae

0

0

1(2.9 %)

0

1(.6 %)

Proteus m.

0

1(1.4 %)

0

1(10 %)

2(1.2 %)

Salmonella spp.

0

0

0

1(10 %)

1(.6 %)

Enterobacter spp.

1(2.1 %)

0

0

0

1(.6 %)

Total

30(63.8 %)

38(55.1 %)

19(55.9 %)

8(80 %)

95(100 %)