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Ochrobactrum anthropi endophthalmitis after vitreous surgery
  1. KENJI INOUE,
  2. JIRO NUMAGA,
  3. YOICHI NAGATA,
  4. MASAHIKO SAKURAI,
  5. NATSUE ASO,
  6. YUJIRO FUJINO
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Branch Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo
  1. Kenji Inoue, Department of Ophthalmology, Branch Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 3-28-6, Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8688, Japan.

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Editor,—Ochrobactrum anthropi is a non-fermentative, motile, strictly aerobic, oxidase positive Gram negative bacillus.1 In 1980, the first case of human infection with O anthropi was described.2 Since then, there have been some reports and this bacillus has been considered as a possible cause of opportunistic infection. There are only two reports ofO anthropi endophthalmitis, one was metastatic endophthalmitis in a patient with a central venous catheter,3 and the other was after cataract surgery.4 We describe a case of unilateral endophthalmitis caused by O anthropi, which was diagnosed after two vitreous surgery procedures.

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