Production of slime layer by staphylococcus epidermidis isolated from corneal infection

الملخص EN

A total of 37 Staphylococcus epidermis's isolates, isolated from corneal scraping of patients with bacterial keratitis and 20 isolates from healthy eyes (as control) (all isolates, isolated from, Ibn Al-Haietham eye hospital / Baghdad), were tested for slime production, 52.63 % of all isolates were positive-slime production (23 isolates from patients and 7 isolates from controls).

It was found that positive-slime producing S.

epidermises were exhibited a high resistance to antibiotics as compared to negative-slime producing isolates.