Abstract :
Aim: To compare the conjunctival flora of diabetic individuals and non-diabetic individuals and assess
their antibiotic sensitivity pattern.
Materials and Methods: A hospital based cross-sectional and descriptive study was carried out from
September 2016 to August 2018 with 92 patients of age group from 40-70 years, to assess the conjunctival
flora and antibiotic sensitivity pattern in diabetic and non-diabetic individuals without any pre-existing
ocular diseases and adnexal disease.
Result: The rate of positive culture in Group A (Diabetics) was significantly higher as compared to Group
B (Non-Diabetics) (21.7% vs. 4.3% respectively) (p higher incidence of the bacteria, Staphylococcus epidermidis in Group A (Diabetics) as compared to
Group B (Non-Diabetics) (p A (Diabetics) showed the following observations - in Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staphlococcusaureus
maximum sensitivity was seen with Gentamicin.
Conclusion: A higher positive culture rate was seen in diabetic individuals as compared to non-diabetic
individuals. It was then concluded that, as gentamicin shows maximum sensitivity to gram-posit ive and
gram-negative organisms, Gentamicin is the drug of choice which takes cares of gram positive as well as
gram negative bacteria and can be considered as routine pre-operative topical medication.
Pre-operative cataract work up.
Keyword :
Conjunctival commensals, Culture sensitivity, Glycosylated haemoglobin, Pre-operative cataract work up.