In the realm of infectious disease, antibiotic resistance is a real and ever increasing concern across the entire healthcare industry. This is also true for ocular infections. With bacterial conjunctivitis being the second most common cause (versus viral conjunctivitis), diligent epidemiology and surveillance monitoring brings valued insight to us all. Eurofins Central Laboratory is proud to have provided analytical services (microbiological species confirmation and antibiotic resistance profile determination) to one of the only two nationwide multi-center surveillance studies (Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring in Ocular Microorganisms - ARMOR) ever undertaken in this indication. Article can be downloaded here.
Species identification was provided for Staphylococcus aureus, Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS), Streptococcus pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Haemophilius influenza. Antibiotic resistance profile determination was provided for fluoroquinolones (ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin, gatifloxacin, besifloxacin, levofloxacin and ofloxacin), macrolides (azithromycin), aminoglycosides (tobramycin), lincosamides (clindamycin), penicillins (oxacillin and/or penicillin), dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors (trimethoprim), polypeptides (polymyxin B), amphenicols (chloramphenicol), tetracyclines (tetracycline) and glycopeptides (vancomycin).
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Asbell PA, DeCory HH (2018) Antibiotic resistance among bacterial conjuctival pathogens collected in the Antibiotic Resistance Monitoring in Ocular Microorganisms (ARMOR) surveillance study. PLoS ONE 13(10): e0205814. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205814
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