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Rhodotorula, isolated from a human keratitis, was experimentally and microscopically found inactive, so that the question arises if micro-organisms found in a given eye lesion are always pathogenic. The answer is probably no.
(1) In the presence of a torpid corneal ulcer, resistant to antibiotics and accompanied by dirty exudates and a hypopion, one must always think of a keratomycosis. (2) A mycotic examination with direct microscopic examination, culture and sensitivity test should immediately be made. (3) At the present time the best antimycotics are miconasol and econasol.
The isolation of 24 strains of gram-negative bacilli from eye infections is discussed. The primocultures were obtained at an incubation temperature of 25 and 30 degrees C, but never at 37 degrees C. These observations show that we have to look for these germs at 30 degrees C in every case of eye infection.
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