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Epidemiologic surveillance of postoperative endophthalmitis in a specialized ophthalmologic center in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Fecha
2013-08-02Registro en:
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL, NEW YORK, v. 40, n. 1, supl. 1, Part 3, pp. E1-E3, FEB, 2012
0196-6553
10.1016/j.ajic.2011.05.017
Autor
de Luz, Reginaldo Adalberto
Padoveze, Maria Clara
Cvintal, Tadeu
Institución
Resumen
This article describes a postoperative endophthalmitis (POE) surveillance system in place in a specialized ophthalmologic center in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The study involved a review of medical records from 2004-2009, during which a total of 31,999 intraocular surgeries were performed. Nineteen of these cases fulfilled the criteria for POE, for an infection rate of 0.06%. The main etiologic agent causing POE was Pseudomonas aeruginosa, identified in 42.1% of the cases (8/19). Copyright (C) 2012 by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.