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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">177</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>INCIDENCE OF VARIOUS FUNGAL SPECIES IN OCULAR INFECTIONS&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bajpai</surname><given-names>Amrita</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bareja</surname><given-names>Rajesh</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sharma</surname><given-names>Munesh</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mishra</surname><given-names>Vashishth</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sami</surname><given-names>Hiba</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>1</fpage><lpage>3</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: The fungi are significant pathogens causing ocular infections due to their frequent involvement and difficulty in establishing definitive diagnosis. The present study was aimed to detect various fungal and bacterial agents that can cause ocular infections.&#13;
Material __ampersandsignamp; Methods: An ophthalmologist collected the corneal scrapping that was smeared onto two slides and stained with Gram__ampersandsignrsquo;s stain and mounted with 10% KOH (potassium hydroxide) for microscopic examination. Material collected was inoculated directly onto 5% sheep__ampersandsignrsquo;s blood agar in the form of __ampersandsignlsquo;C__ampersandsignrsquo; streak, Sabouraud dextrose agar (SDA), and sent to the Microbiology department for further processing and identification of causative agent.&#13;
Results: Out of three hundred and sixty samples, ten cases were found to be fungal culture positive. Aspergillus species were accounting for 40% cases followed by Curvularia species (30%), Alternaria species (1%), Fusarium species (1%) and Scytalidium dimidiatum (1%).&#13;
Conclusion: Fungal infection is a life threatening condition, which needs early diagnosis and treatment to save the patient__ampersandsignrsquo;s eye.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Keratitis</kwd><kwd> Corneal scrapping</kwd><kwd> KOH</kwd><kwd> SDA</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
