2002 OMIG Abstracts

36th Annual Meeting
Oct. 19, 2002
7:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.
Radisson Hotel Universal Orlando
Orlando, FL

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1. Will The Fourth-generation Fluoroquinolones Provide Any Advantage in The Future Treatment of Bacterial Keratitis?
   R.P. Kowalski, L.M.Karenchak, E.G. Romanowski, F.S. Mah, D.C. Ritterband*, Y.J. Gordon. The Charles T. Campbell Lab, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, *New York Eye & Ear Infirmary, NY, NY
2. Comparative efficacy of topical gatifloxacin, a new fluoroquinolone, versus topical ciprofloxacin, penicillin G and tobramycin in the treatment of experimental S. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa keratitis in rabbits.
   Myung-Jin Joo M.D., Elias Aliprandis M.D., Terrence P. O'Brien M.D. Ocular Microbiology Laboratory, The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
3. Susceptibility of Ocular Isolates to Gatifloxacin and Older Fluoroquinolones
   Monica Monica, MD¹; Harold Jensen, PhD²; The Allergan Gatifloxacin Study Group^{2 1}Private Practice, New Orleans, LA; ²Allergan
4. Postantibiotic Effect of Ciprofloxacin and Ofloxacin on Pseudomonas aeruginosa
   RM Gander, PV Berkley and JP McCulley. UT Southwestern Med. Ctr., Dallas,TX.
5. Can Topical Ocular Antibiotics Induce Systemic Resistance?
   Bruce Gaynor,^1,2 Vicky Cevallos,¹Yinghui Miao,¹ Elizabeth Yi,¹ Hem Jha,³ Ramesh Bhattta,³ JSP Chaudary,³
   John Whitcher,^1,2 Susan Osaki-Holm,¹ Alicia Fry,⁴ and Tom Lietman^{1,2
   1}F.I. Proctor Foundation and the ²Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, ³Geta Eye Hospital, Geta, Nepal, ⁴Respiratory Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, Centers For Disease Control, Atlanta Georgia
6. Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infectious Keratitis Following Refractive Surgery
   Renee Solomon, MD,¹ Eric D. Donnenfeld, MD,¹ Michael Ehrenhaus, MD,² Henry D. Perry, MD,¹ Seth Biser, MD,¹ Roy Rubinfeld, MD^{3
   1}Department of Ophthalmology, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York, ²Department of Ophthalmology, Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens, New York, ³Center for Sight, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
7. Fluoroquinolone Therapy of Multiple Drug-Resistant Staphylococcal Keratitis after Lamellar Keratectomy
   Peter J. McDonnell, MD^1,2; Tulaya Tungsiripat, MD¹; Melvin A. Sarayba, MD¹; Matthew B. Kaufman, MD¹; Paula M. Sweet, MT¹; Mehran Taban, BS¹; Thomas R. Carpenter, DVM, PhD^{3
   1}Department of Ophthalmology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA; ²Doheny Eye Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, ³Department of Safety Evaluation, Allergan, Inc., Irvine, CA
8. Prophylaxis of Streptococcus Pneumoniae keratitis with Gatifloxacin in a Rabbit LASIK Model
   Robert S. Donnenfeld,¹ Jonathan J. Stein, MD,¹ Harold G. Jensen, PhD,² Henry D.Perry, MD,¹ Renee Solomon, MD,¹ Robert Snyder, MD,³ John Wittpenn, MD^{1
   1}Department of Ophthalmology, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, NY, ²Allergan Pharmaceutical, Irvine, CA, ³University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
9. Diffuse Lamellar Kerititis: Can Fluoroquinolones Be a Cause?
   FS Mah, DK Dhaliwal, EG Romanowski, KA Yates, YJ Gordon. Charles T. Campbell Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
10. The In Vitro Susceptibility of Bacterial Endophthalmitis Isolates to Azithromycin
    R. Mather, R.P. Kowalski, J.P.Whitcher. The Charles T. Campbell Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, PA and The Francis I Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, CA
11. Increased Risk of Endophthalmitis in Clear Cornea Cataract Surgery
    Snyder, RW M.D., Ph.D., Nedrud, Chad M.D., Twelker, Dan O.D., Ph.D.
    University of Arizona Department of Ophthalmology
12. Will the new generation of fluoroquinolone antibiotics become the antimicrobials of choice in endophthalmitis prophylaxis? M. Shah, D. Ritterband, A. Dingley, R. Koplin, J. Seedor. The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, NY.
13. An Outbreak of Pneumococcal Conjunctivitis on a College Campus
    P. Sanchez,¹ A Bashir,¹ J Turco,¹ J Pryor,¹ J Schwartzman,¹ M Martin,² C Whitney,² M Zegans^{1
    1}Dartmouth Medical School, ²CDC
14. Broth Based Culture Systems For The Isolation of Acid Fast Mycobacterium Causing Ocular Infections
    D. Ritterband, M. Shah, A. Terraciano, A. Dingley, J. Pelletier, T. Raviv, J. Seedor. The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, New York, New York.
15. Comparative efficacy of topical Gatifloxacin with fortified Amikacin, Clarithromycin, and Ciprofloxacin in the treatment of experimental Mycobacterium chelonae keratitis in an experimental rabbit model
    Joon-Young Hyon M.D., Myung-Jin Joo M.D., Terrence P. O'Brien M.D.
    Ocular Microbiology Laboratory, The Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
16. Comparison of Clinico-Microbiological Features in Smear Positive and Smear Negative cases of Microbial Keratitis
    Savitri Sharma, Mukesh Taneja, Anjall Upponi, Prashant Garg, Usha Gopinathan, Nibaran Gangopadhyay, Rishitha Nutheti. LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, lndia
17. Unusual Plaque Presentation of Dematiaceous Fungal Keratitis : A Clinical and Histopathologic Study
    Prashant Garg, MD, Geeta K. Vemuganti, MD, Samrat Chatarjee, MD, Usha Gopinathan, PhD, Rishita Nutheti, MSc, Gullapalli N. Rao, MD
    L.V. Prasad Eye Institute, L.V. Prasad Marg, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad - 500 034.
18. HAART-Mediated Long-term Cytomegalovirus Retinitis Quiescence
    Robert J. Campbell, MD MSc, Elizabeth C. Lowcock, William G. Hodge, MD MPH FRCSC
    University of Ottawa Eye Institute, Ottawa Ontario Canada
19. The In Vitro Evaluation of the New Antimicrobial Agent N-Chlorotaurine (NCT) Against Ocular Isolates of Adenovirus
    EG Romanowski¹, KA Yates¹, B Teuchner², M Nagl², W Gottardi², RP Kowalski¹, FS Mah¹, YJ Gordon¹.
    ¹The Charles T. Campbell Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ²University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
20. The Charles T. Campbell Laboratory Web Site: An Information Center for Ophthalmic Microbiology and The OMIG Organization
    Lisa M. Karenchak (Webmaster), Regis P. Kowalski, Eric G. Romanowski, Francis S. Mah, Jerold S. Gordon, The Charles T. Campbell Laboratory, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.