Esraa Fadhel Wathah
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Isolation and Diagnosis of the Bacteria Causing Corneal Ulceration Associated With Ocular Myiasis Infection Dhuha Mahdi Jabir; Esraa Fadhel Wathah
Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Vol. 16 No. 1 (2022): Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology
Publisher : Institute of Medico-legal Publications Pvt Ltd

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.37506/ijfmt.v16i1.17479

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The current study was conducted to isolate and diagnose the bacteria that company cases ocular myiasisas complications. The bacteria were collected using a cotton swab for 30 individuals who came to theDiwaniyah Teaching Hospital due to their infection with ocularmyiasis. The swabs were cultivatedon many culture media, such as blood agar and MacConkey, and mannitol salt and EMB mediumfor diagnosis of Ecoli. The results of the culture were positive for all samples under study. Varioustypes were isolated; including rod and coccobacilli gram-negative in addition to gram-positive cocci,fermented and non-fermented mannitol species, and the identification of the species was confirmedusing the VITEK2 system, the antibiotic susceptibility test was also checked using the same test andthe results were as the following Ecoli in 5 cases, Pseudomonas spp in 4 cases, Kelbssilla pneumoniain one case, S aureus in 4 cases, S.epidermides in 5 cases in addition to many other different species.