**3.4 Socio-demographic data**

In the current study, a total of 88 patients seeking treatment for eye infection at AKTH and MMSH were included; there were no non-respondents. From the total


## **Table 4.**

*Antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of* S.aureus *(N = 24).*


## **Table 5.**

*Antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of* S. pneumoniae *(n = 4).*

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## **Table 6.**

*Antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of* E.coli *(n = 4).*


### **Table 7.**

*Antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of* P. aeruginosa *(n = 23).*


### **Table 8.**

*Antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of* K.pneumoniae *(n = 7).*


## **Table 9.**

*Socio-demographic distribution of the study participants (N = 88).*

study participants, 51 (58%), 29 (33%) and 61 (69.3%) were females, in 0–3 years age group and from rural areas, respectively. Most of the study participants were students and from hausa ethinic group 73 (83%) (**Table 9**).

## **3.5 Clinical presentation**

Among 88 study participants assessed, the proportions of clinical finding were as follows: conjunctivitis 82 (93.2%), dacryocystitis 4 (4.5%), blepharitis 2 (2.3%) (**Table 10**).

## **3.6 Factors associated with ocular infection**

None of the factors were significantly associated with ocular infections (P > 0.05). The proportions of bacterial eye infection among study participants with 0–3, 4–11,

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## **Table 10.**

*Types of clinical presentations.*

12–17, 18–39 and ≥ 40 age groups in years were 29 (33%), 16 (18.2%), 5 (5.7%), 21 (23.9%) and 17 (19.3%), respectively. The proportions of bacteria eye infection in rural and urban area were 61 (69.3%) and 27 (30.7%), respectively (**Table 11**). The proportion of bacterial eye infection among participants with repeated infections was 10 (11.36%) and among non-repeated infection was 78 (88.6%). The proportions of bacterial eye infection among participants whom are illiterate, primary, secondary, tertiary and those that are yet to enter school were 11 (12.5%), 16 (18.2%), 21 (23.9%), 8 (9.1%) and 32 (36.4%), respectively (**Table 11**). Conjuctivitis is the predominant clinical presentation (**Table 10**). The proportion of bacterial eye infection among participants with risk of infection was 2 (2.3%) (**Table 3**).
