Criteria for exclusion were the following: previous ocular surgery especially eyelid surgery or orbital decompression surgery for cosmetic purposes without TAO.
To describe the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of fungal isolates to natamycin and voriconazole, and to compare these MICs to previous ocular susceptibility studies.
We excluded patients with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, glaucoma, previous ocular trauma, history of ocular surgery, and previous use of topical corticosteroid eye drops.
The patient denied any previous ocular disease or trauma.
The patient denied having any significant previous ocular history.
She reported no previous ocular complaints or neurological or auditory symptoms.
She denied any trauma or injury to the eye, or having any previous ocular history.
It may also be associated with infectious causes, previous ocular surgery, drugs, or malignancies [2, 6, 7].
To date, five cases of VRE endophthalmitis have been reported in the literature, associated with previous ocular surgery or immunosuppression [1 5].
There was no recorded sign of previous ocular trauma, keratic precipitates, hypopyon, or afferent pupillary defect, and his poor vision was attributed to the inflammation from initial injury.
As we were seeing this patient for the first time during this study, without any records of previous ocular evaluations, it is difficult to speculate the association of FHI and chikungunya virus in this patient.
