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Case Reports
. 2020 Nov;68(11):2550-2552.
doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1905_20.

Burkholderia cenocepacia keratitis

Geeta Behera  1 , Radha Sugumar  2 , Sujata Sistla  2 , Mary Stephen  1 , Subashini Kaliaperumal  1 , K Ramesh Babu  2
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Case Reports

Burkholderia cenocepacia keratitis

Geeta Behera et al. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2020 Nov.

Abstract

A 33-year-old lady with history of failed keratoplasty for decompensated cornea due to childhood trauma and secondary glaucoma, post glaucoma drainage implant, with pseudophakia in the right eye, developed bacterial keratitis following foreign body trauma to corneal graft. Corneal cultures yielded Burkholderia cenocepacia identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF- MS, bioMerieux, France). She healed with topical antibiotics (moxifloxacin 0.5%) in 1 month. Ours is the first report of ocular Burkholderia cenocepacia infection, possibly an under reported, aerobic, organism.

Keywords: Burkholderia cenocepacia; MALDI-TOF- MS; keratitis.

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Figure 1
Slit-lamp photographs. (a) Diffuse photograph of graft ulcer at 12 o'clock with infiltrate and conjunctival congestion. (b) Slit photograph of the graft ulcer. (c) Complete healing of graft ulcer after 1 month with scarring
Figure 2
Figure 2
(a) MacConkey medium showing round nonlactose fermenting colonies of B.cenocepacia. (b) Gram staining performed from the colony showing gram-negative bacilli with parallel sides and round ends
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