Listeria monocytogenes endophthalmitis
A. G. Bagnarello, A. J. Berlin, A. J. Weinstein, M. C. McHenry and P. S. O'Connor
Listeria monocytogenes and a staphylococcus organism caused a catastrophic
endophthalmitis in a patient despite appropriate local and systemic
antimicrobial chemotherapy. Although L monocytogenes is widespread in
nature and has produced a variety of clinical illnesses, it has only one
previously been reported to cause endophthalmitis. If appropriate
microbiologic techniques are not employed, the organism may go unrecognized
as an ocular pathogen.
