Burkholderia cenocepacia keratitis

Geeta Behera; Radha Sugumar; Sujata Sistla; Mary Stephen; Subashini Kaliaperumal; K Ramesh Babu

doi:10.4103/ijo.IJO_1905_20

Burkholderia cenocepacia keratitis

Indian J Ophthalmol. 2020 Nov;68(11):2550-2552. doi: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1905_20.

Authors

Geeta Behera¹, Radha Sugumar², Sujata Sistla², Mary Stephen¹, Subashini Kaliaperumal¹, K Ramesh Babu²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Ophthalmology, Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India.
² Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Post-Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India.

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.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
Burkholderia cenocepacia*
Eye Infections, Bacterial* / diagnosis
Eye Infections, Bacterial* / drug therapy
Female
Humans
Keratitis* / diagnosis
Keratitis* / drug therapy
Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization

Substances

Anti-Bacterial Agents