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In this report, a case of bacterial keratitis caused by Klebsiella ozaenae is presented. The patient was an otherwise healthy 65-year-old woman with a history of chronic ocular inflammation and a corneal transplant two years prior to the appearance of the corneal ulcer. K. ozaenae is uncommon as a cause of keratitis and is recognized as a cause of atrophic rhinitis and as an opportunistic pathogen in patients with various underlying diseases. The organism was not identified with the computer-assisted API 20E for identification of the Enterobacteriaceae, and conventional methods were required to demonstrate its unique properties. The clinical spectrum of disease, the characteristics of the organism, and its susceptibility to antimicrobial agents are discussed.
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PMID:Isolation of Klebsiella ozaenae from a corneal abscess. 399 31

Although Moraxella lacunata causes conjunctivitis, keratitis, endocarditis, and otolaryngitis in humans, its infection is rare in animals. We report three cases of asymptomatic pulmonary abscesses caused by M. lacunata in zoo herbivores, including two elks (Cervus canadensis) and a common eland (Taurotragus oryx). In all cases, macroscopic findings included coalescence of lung lobes and severe pulmonary abscesses filled with cheese-like materials in cysts. Microscopic findings included pneumonia characterized by marked fibrin exudates in alveolar spaces and infiltration of inflammatory cells. M. lacunata was identified in bacterial cultures from pulmonary abscesses using biochemical API 20NE system. M. lacunata is rarely isolated from zoo animals; however, herein, we describe the first report of pulmonary abscesses caused by M. lacunata infection.
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PMID:Identification of Moraxella lacunata from pulmonary abscesses in three zoo herbivores. 3036 88