Serratia liquefaciens Causing Severe Ocular Damage in Noncontact Lens Wearer

Eye Contact Lens. 2018 Sep:44 Suppl 1:S320-S321. doi: 10.1097/ICL.0000000000000295.

Abstract

Serratia liquefaciens is a rarely encountered gram-negative organism in ophthalmology practice. The only reported ocular infections are from contamination of contact lenses. The authors report the first case of a patient who developed orbital cellulitis secondary to severe S. liquefaciens microbial keratitis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Biopsy
  • Contact Lenses / adverse effects
  • Contact Lenses / microbiology*
  • Cornea / microbiology
  • Cornea / pathology
  • Equipment Contamination
  • Eye Infections, Bacterial / diagnosis
  • Eye Infections, Bacterial / etiology*
  • Eye Infections, Bacterial / microbiology
  • Humans
  • Keratitis / diagnosis
  • Keratitis / etiology*
  • Keratitis / microbiology
  • Male
  • Orbital Cellulitis / diagnosis
  • Orbital Cellulitis / etiology*
  • Orbital Cellulitis / microbiology
  • Serratia Infections / diagnosis
  • Serratia Infections / etiology*
  • Serratia Infections / microbiology
  • Serratia liquefaciens / isolation & purification*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed