tetracycline and Endophthalmitis

Topics: Animals; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Ciprofloxacin; Emergency Nursing; Endophthalmitis; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Mydriatics; Saline Solution; Snake Venoms; Tetracycline

Four patients from Caribbean and Central American countries with ocular disease and serologic evidence of Lyme borreliosis are discussed. To our knowledge this is the first report of Lyme disease from this geographic area. Two patients exhibited ocular inflammatory disease, and two patients developed optic neuropathy. A brief discussion of Lyme borreliosis, its serologic diagnosis, and its treatment is presented.

Topics: Adult; Aged; Borrelia Infections; Ceftriaxone; Child; Endophthalmitis; Eye Diseases; Humans; Intraocular Pressure; Lyme Disease; Male; Middle Aged; Optic Nerve Diseases; Penicillins; Tetracycline; Visual Acuity; West Indies

Topics: beta-Lactamases; Ceftriaxone; Doxycycline; Drug Resistance, Microbial; Endophthalmitis; Female; Gonorrhea; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Information Systems; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Pelvic Inflammatory Disease; Population Surveillance; Tetracycline; United States

These recommendations specify appropriate treatment, including dosage of antibiotics for uncomplicated gonococcal infections in adults, infections with penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae, acute salpingitis, acute epididymitis, disseminated gonococcal infections, and gonococcal infections in pediatric patients (including neonatal infections). Special attention is given to important diagnostic considerations, relation of gonococcal infections to concomitant venereal infections, treatment of sexual partners, follow-up, treatment failures, treatments not recommended, allergic problems in treatment, needs for hospitalization, and prevention of gonococcal ophthalmia. Attention is called to the importance of using no less than the recommended dosages of antibiotics.

Topics: Amoxicillin; Ampicillin; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Child; Drug Administration Schedule; Endocarditis, Bacterial; Endophthalmitis; Epididymitis; Female; Gonorrhea; Hospitalization; Humans; Infant, Newborn; Male; Meningitis; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Penicillin G Procaine; Penicillinase; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Complications, Infectious; Salpingitis; Spectinomycin; Tetracycline

Topics: Acute Disease; Asia, Western; Blindness; Conjunctivitis; Diptera; Disease Models, Animal; Doxycycline; Endophthalmitis; Eyelid Diseases; Humans; Insect Control; Tetracycline; Trachoma

Topics: Adolescent; Adult; Age Factors; Ampicillin; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Cefazolin; Child; Child, Preschool; Endophthalmitis; Erythromycin; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Gonorrhea; Hospitalization; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Male; Penicillin G; Penicillin G Procaine; Pharyngeal Diseases; Pregnancy; Pregnancy Complications, Infectious; Probenecid; Salpingitis; Sex Factors; Spectinomycin; Tetracycline

Topics: Anthelmintics; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antifungal Agents; Aqueous Humor; Chloramphenicol; Chlortetracycline; Conjunctivitis; Dihydrostreptomycin Sulfate; Drug Resistance; Drug Resistance, Microbial; Endophthalmitis; Escherichia coli Infections; Helminthiasis; Keratitis; Keratitis, Dendritic; Lens, Crystalline; Manometry; Mycoses; Oxytetracycline; Penicillins; Staphylococcal Infections; Tetracycline; Virus Diseases

Topics: Adrenal Cortex Hormones; Adrenocorticotropic Hormone; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Cataract Extraction; Chloramphenicol; Endophthalmitis; Methicillin; Novobiocin; Oxacillin; Postoperative Complications; Proteus Infections; Pseudomonas Infections; Staphylococcal Infections; Streptomycin; Tetracycline; Toxicology; Vancomycin