bacterial eye infection

The patients had a bacterial eye infection known as endophthalmitis.

It is prescribed for a wide spectrum of bacterial eye infections.

The number of bacterial eye infections related to sexually transmitted disease is steadily rising.

At age 11 days, he was admitted to a hospital in New York City for a bacterial eye infection due to Chlamydia trachomatis, which he apparently acquired in the birth canal.

The warning by the National Eye Institute applies to the estimated 5,400 patients who suffer bacterial eye infections each year after cataract surgery, a procedure that 1.35 million Americans undergo annually.

The commentary also called for more research on the best antimicrobial agents to treat fungal eye infections, which are far rarer than bacterial eye infections but are still a major cause of blindness in developing countries.