Isolation and Identification of Moraxella Catarrhalis From Cases of Eye Infections

The study included isolation and identification of Moraxella catarrhalis which causes eye infection.
Samples were collected from 200 patients (105 Male, 95 Female) at Al-Zahrawi and Al-Salam general hospitals, their ages range from 15 days-80 years.
The samples were taken from different parts of the eye including (conjunctiva, cornea, eye lids, sclera and lacrimal duct). And the percentages found to be of bacterial infection of the eye was 48% infection of conjunctiva from the majority of them 90.5% of these infection, eye lids 5.5%, cornea 3%, sclera 0.5% and lacrimal duct 0.5% ,the other percentage 52%(104 samples) it is either viral, fungal, parasitcal or allergical cause.
Moraxella forms 11.5% of all bacterial infection of the eye and it was diagnosed as Moraxella catarrhalis by tributyrin test which differentiates it from Neisseria gonorrhoeae.