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Lt Col Daniel L. Roper, MC, FS, USAF

Arch Ophthalmol. 1979;97(5):888-889.

Abstract
• A 34-month-old boy had a corneal ulcer due to Shigella sonnei. To my knowledge, this is the first documented case reported where the same organism was recovered from the stool. One other case of S sonnei and two cases of Sflexneri corneal ulcers have appeared in the literature. All cases have been in young black boys between the ages of 23 months and 6 years. The exact pathogenesis remains unclear, but direct fecalocular inoculation into a preexisting epithelial defect, a probable herpetic dendrite in this case, is most likely.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Ophthalmology, Barksdale Air Force Base, Shreveport, La.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Sept 8, 1978.

Read before the section on ophthalmology at the annual meeting of the Southern Medical Association, Atlanta, Nov 11, 1978.

The opinions and assertions contained herein are the private views of the author and are not to be construed as official or reflecting the views of the Department of the Air Force or the Department of Defense.

Reprint requests to Department of Ophthalmology, USAF Hospital Barksdale, Barksdale Air Force Base, LA 71110 (Dr Roper).

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