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Included were only those cases for which vitreous aspirate specimens were subjected to microbiological analysis. Cases of exogenous endophthalmitis secondary to other ocular or periocular infections (e.g., microbial keratitis) or trauma were excluded. Microbiological pathogen identification was performed using Gram stain microscopy, conventional bacterial and fungal cultures, as well as broad-range bacterial and fungal polymerase chain reaction (PCR), followed by sequencing in PCR-positive samples.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A total of 126 endophthalmitis vitreous aspirate samples from 126 patients with a mean age of 73.3\u2009\u00b1\u200911.4\u00a0years were included. The majority of endophthalmitis cases occurred after intravitreal injection (55.6%), followed by previous cataract surgery (23.8%), pars plana vitrectomy (5.6%), and glaucoma surgery (4.8%). Only 7.9% of all cases were endogenous. Overall, pathogens were identified in 58.7% (n\u2009=\u200974) of all cases, with culture yielding a higher detection rate compared to PCR (53.2%\n                      <jats:italic>versus<\/jats:italic>\n                      43.5%).\n                      <jats:italic>Staphylococcus epidermidis<\/jats:italic>\n                      was most commonly detected (n\u2009=\u200943; 58.1%), followed by\n                      <jats:italic>Staphylococcus aureus<\/jats:italic>\n                      (n\u2009=\u20097; 9.5%) and\n                      <jats:italic>Enterococcus faecalis<\/jats:italic>\n                      (n\u2009=\u20095; 6.8%). Postinjection and postcataract endophthalmitis tended to be associated with positive bacterial culture results, whereas endogenous endophthalmitis was more frequently associated with negative bacterial culture results (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u2009=\u20090.06). Fungal endophthalmitis was detected in three samples, of which the endogenous cases were caused by\n                      <jats:italic>Candida albicans<\/jats:italic>\n                      (n\u2009=\u20092). Bacterial multidrug resistance was rare, with only a single detected methicillin-resistant\n                      <jats:italic>S. aureus<\/jats:italic>\n                      strain. All Gram-positive bacteria were susceptible to vancomycin.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Our results confirm\n                      <jats:italic>S. epidermidis<\/jats:italic>\n                      to be the most common endophthalmitis-causing pathogen. No single microbiological diagnostic technique would have identified all cases of infection, thus calling for combined approaches that include culture and molecular testing.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s15010-026-02763-5","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,25]],"date-time":"2026-03-25T14:17:00Z","timestamp":1774448220000},"page":"1383-1388","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Microbiological etiology of endogenous and exogenous postprocedural endophthalmitis: a 5-year German federal state study"],"prefix":"10.1007","volume":"54","author":[{"given":"Colya N.","family":"Englisch","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tim","family":"Berger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fabian N.","family":"Fries","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alexander","family":"Halfmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Markus","family":"Bischoff","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Philip","family":"Wakili","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Annekatrin","family":"Rickmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Boris V.","family":"Stanzel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eugen","family":"Reifschneider","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marc A.","family":"Macek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alaa Din","family":"Abdin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shady","family":"Suffo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Loay","family":"Daas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Karl T.","family":"Boden","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Peter","family":"Szurman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Berthold","family":"Seitz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S\u00f6ren L.","family":"Becker","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Clara E.","family":"Englisch","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"N\u00faria P\u00e9rez","family":"Guerra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,25]]},"reference":[{"issue":"7","key":"2763_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"534","DOI":"10.1089\/jop.2018.0074","volume":"36","author":"LJ Lu","year":"2020","unstructured":"Lu LJ, Chen X, Adelman RA. 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