Candida glabrata

Record number:

383

Adverse Occurrence type:

MPHO Type:

Alerting signals, symptoms, evidence of occurrence:

Local inflammation, pus, positive culture results for the organism.

Demonstration of imputability or root cause:

Matching culture results are found from the donor tissue or the mated ocular tissue tranplanted into a different patient

Keywords:

donor infection

cornea transplantation

disease transmission

penetrating adverse effects

Candida glabrata

References:

Donor-to-host transmission of Candida glabrata to both recipients of corneal transplants from the same donor

Contamination of donor cornea: postpenetrating keratoplasty endophthalmitis

Endophthalmitis from contaminated donor corneas following penetrating keratoplasty

Microbial keratitis following corneal transplantation

Frequency of positive donor rim cultures after penetrating keratoplasty using hypothermic and organ-cultured donor corneas

Late bacterial and fungal keratitis after corneal transplantation. Spectrum of pathogens, graft survival, and visual prognosis

Changing patterns of infectious keratitis: overview of clinical and histopathologic features of keratitis due to acanthamoeba or atypical mycobacteria, and of infectious crystalline keratopathy

Endophthalmitis after penetrating keratoplasty: microbiologic spectrum and susceptibility of isolates

Multistate outbreak of toxic anterior segment syndrome, 2005

Toxic anterior segment syndrome following penetrating keratoplasty

Organ-cultured corneal grafts from septic donors: a retrospective study

Incidence of acute endophthalmitis following penetrating keratoplasty: a systematic review

Postkeratoplasty atopic sclerokeratitis in keratoconus patients

Late microbial keratitis after corneal transplantation

Infectious keratitis following keratoplasty

Complications of penetrating keratoplasty: graft infections

Microbial keratitis following corneal transplantation

Late-onset donor-to-host transmission of Candida glabrata following corneal transplantation

Candida glabrata endophthalmitis following penetrating keratoplasty in a patient with negative donor rim culture