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Contact Lens-Related Infectious Keratitis with White Plaque Formation Caused by Corynebacterium propinquum.

ABSTRACT: We report the first case of Corynebacterium propinquum keratitis in the compromised cornea of a diabetic patient wearing therapeutic contact lenses. The strain was identified to the species level based on sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene and RNA polymerase ?-subunit-encoding gene (rpoB). Ophthalmologists should be aware of nondiphtherial corynebacterial infection of compromised corneas.

SUBMITTER: Todokoro D

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4540905 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Contact Lens-Related Infectious Keratitis with White Plaque Formation Caused by Corynebacterium propinquum.

Todokoro Daisuke D Eguchi Hiroshi H Yamada Norihiro N Sodeyama Hirotake H Hosoya Ryuichi R Kishi Shoji S

Journal of clinical microbiology 20150715 9

We report the first case of Corynebacterium propinquum keratitis in the compromised cornea of a diabetic patient wearing therapeutic contact lenses. The strain was identified to the species level based on sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene and RNA polymerase β-subunit-encoding gene (rpoB). Ophthalmologists should be aware of nondiphtherial corynebacterial infection of compromised corneas. ...[more]

PMID: 26179302

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