201. Isolated group B streptococcal endogenous endophthalmitis simulating retinoblastoma or persistent fetal vasculature in a healthy full-term infant.
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McCourt EA, Hink EM, Durairaj VD, and Oliver SC
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- Diagnosis, Differential, Endophthalmitis microbiology, Endophthalmitis surgery, Eye Enucleation, Eye Infections, Bacterial microbiology, Eye Infections, Bacterial surgery, Female, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Microscopy, Acoustic, Streptococcal Infections microbiology, Streptococcal Infections surgery, Endophthalmitis diagnosis, Eye Infections, Bacterial diagnosis, Persistent Fetal Circulation Syndrome diagnosis, Retinal Neoplasms diagnosis, Retinoblastoma diagnosis, Streptococcal Infections diagnosis, Streptococcus agalactiae isolation & purification
- Abstract
Group B streptococcus (GBS) is a potentially devastating neonatal pathogen that most commonly causes meningitis, sepsis, and pneumonia. It is also a very rare cause of endogenous endophthalmitis. We present the second case of endogenous endophthalmitis caused by GBS in a healthy newborn and the first case of endogenous endophthalmitis by GBS in a newborn mimicking retinoblastoma and resulting in enucleation., (Copyright (c) 2010 American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. Published by Mosby, Inc. All rights reserved.)
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- 2010
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