Corneal opacities are important causes of blindness, and their major etiology is infectious
keratitis. Slit-lamp examinations are commonly used to determine the causative pathogen; …

Ocular infections can be medical emergencies that result in permanent visual impairment or
blindness and loss of quality of life. Bacteria are a major cause of ocular infections. Effective …

Moraxella catarrhalis is the most clinically relevant species among Moraxella spp. For
decades, it was considered to be part of the normal human flora in the upper respiratory …

Context Imbalance of the skin microbial community could impair skin immune homeostasis
and thus trigger skin lesions. Dysbiosis of skin microbiome may be involved in the early …

Diabetes mellitus is recognized as a major predisposing factor for Moraxella keratitis.
However, how diabetes mellitus contributes to Moraxella keratitis remains unclear. In this …

ABSTRACT A total of 62 isolates of Riemerella-like organisms, originally isolated from
Australian poultry (10 from chickens, 46 from ducks, five from unknown hosts and one …

Aims To report an epidemiological update of bacterial keratitis (BK) in a tertiary
ophthalmology centre over 20 months compared with a previous study on the same …

Moraxella nonliquefaciens is a commensal of the human upper respiratory tract (URT) but
on rare occasions is recovered in cases of ocular, septic and pulmonary infections. Hence …

Moraxella species are Gram-negative coccobacilli that typically colonize the flora of the
human upper respiratory tract and have low pathogenic potential. There are limited case …

Introduction: Moraxella nonliquefaciens (M. nonliquefaciens) is a low pathogenicity
microorganism, which rarely causes ocular infections, unless there is a predisposing factor …