An Eleven-Year Retrospective Study of Endogenous Bacterial Endophthalmitis

Table 3

Isolated organism from blood, intraocular, or other cultures.

Organisms (number of cases)	Cultures							Subtotal
	Blood; ()	Blood & vitreous; ()	Blood, vitreous, aqueous & others; ()	Blood & others; ()	Vitreous; ()	Vitreous & aqueous; ()	Others; ()
Gram-positive ()
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)	3			3			2	8
Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA)	1	1		1				3
CSN		1						1
Streptococcus agalactiae	2	1						3
Streptococcus pneumoniae	1							1
Streptococcus equisimilis			1					1
Nocardia farcinica	1							1
Gram-negative ()
Neisseria sp.					1			1
Klebsiella pneumoniae					1	1		2
Enterobacter cloacae				1				1

CNS, coagulase-negative Staphylococcus; MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus  aureus; MSSA, methicillin-sensitive S. aureus.