{"id":6939,"date":"2021-01-18T17:23:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vetuvir.com\/corneal-infections-in-veterinary-medicine-a-serious-health-problem-caused-by-antibiotic-resistance\/"},"modified":"2021-01-18T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T17:26:22","slug":"corneal-infections-in-veterinary-medicine-a-serious-health-problem-caused-by-antibiotic-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vetuvir.com\/en\/corneal-infections-in-veterinary-medicine-a-serious-health-problem-caused-by-antibiotic-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Corneal infections in veterinary medicine: a serious health problem caused by antibiotic resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Corneal infections<\/strong>, such as <strong>infectious keratitis <\/strong> and <strong>corneal ulcers<\/strong>, represent the most common ocular diseases in dogs and cats; they also account for 50% of equine ophthalmology cases (running in races is the cause in more than 60% of the cases).<br \/>\n<strong>Corneal infections<\/strong> often represent an ophthalmic emergency. During summer time or in hot climates, these diseases can lead to <strong>serious complications leading to vision loss<\/strong>.<br \/>\nIsolated micro-organisms from infectious keratitis include Gram positive (40-50%), Gram negative (45-50%), fungi (5-10%) and viruses (<5%). Staphylococci and streptococci accounts for <strong>more than 60% of bacterial isolates<\/strong> from dogs, cats and horses with infectious keratitis. Unfortunately, <strong>antibiotic resistance<\/strong> of cocci to all commercially available antibiotics has been dramatically increasing and has emerged as a <strong>very significant health care problem<\/strong> in the last decade.<br \/>\nThere is high demand for solving the need of more effective therapies for corneal infections without increasing the risk of antibiotic resistance: <strong>our solution to this demanding problem is VET-CXL\u00ae<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corneal infections, such as infectious keratitis and corneal ulcers, represent the most common ocular diseases in dogs and cats; they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[119],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ 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