Sikatrik kornea dapat menimbulkan gangguan penglihatan mulai dari kabur sampai dengan kebutaan. Sikatrik kornea dapat bentuk ringan (nebula), sedang (makula) dan berat (leukoma). Gangguan kornea merupakan penyebab kebutaan kedua didunia setelah katarak. Sikatrik kornea lebih sering disebabkan oleh infeksi, xeropthalmia dan trauma. Belum ada data yang akurat mengenai prevalensi sikatrik kornea d…
Sterile culture results were quite often found in corneal ulcer patients. This condition usualy related to insufficient material available for culture. In order to increase bacterial isolation rate, improvement of the microbiological isolation method using enriched media prior to the isolation were perfomed. The results showed that, using this method, sterile culture results were significantly …
Corneal ulcers is one of the difficult case to handle, most of them causes a blindness. It needs an antibiogram in order to choose drug of choice, however, it takes time. So sensitivity patterns is important as guidance to choose an initial antibiotic treatment to the patient. Sensitivity test of 42 isolates from 33 corneal ulcer patients against 12 antibiotics have been done, using disc diffus…