Pathological conjunctival bacterial isolates
| Organism | All eyes | No trichiasis | Trichiasis | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | % | No | % | No | % | |||
| S pneumoniae | 18 | 42.9 | 3 | 20.0 | 15 | 55.6 | ||
| Streptococcus group C | 6 | 14.3 | 1 | 6.7 | 5 | 18.5 | ||
| Streptococcus spp | 3 | 7.1 | 1 | 6.7 | 2 | 7.4 | ||
| S viridans | 1 | 2.4 | 1 | 6.7 | 0 | – | ||
| Staphylococcus aureus | 13 | 30.9 | 8 | 53.2 | 5 | 18.5 | ||
| Coliform spp | 1 | 2.4 | 1 | 6.7 | 0 | – | ||
| Number of isolates | 42 | 15 | 27 | |||||
| Number of eyes sampled | 155 | 87 | 68 | |||||