Do not try to burst styes—this could spread the infection. Keratitis is the inflammation of the cornea, the transparent part ...

Therapeutic keratoplasty is recommended for managing infectious keratitis unresponsive to conventional treatments, aiming to restore globe integrity or eradicate the infection. Bacterial and ...

The most frequent causes of microbial keratitis are bacterial, fungal, viral and parasitic (acanthamoeba). Historically, fungal keratitis was thought to be a suppurative corneal lesion with one or ...

[13] Differentiation between DLK and infectious keratitis is necessary to apply the appropriate treatment. Diffuse lamellar keratitis is scattered through a large area of the interface. It is ...

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Lead researcher Lottie Brown from the University of Manchester today publishes the first estimation of global fungal keratitis figures in Lancet Infectious Diseases. Infection of the transparent ...

The European Commission has approved SIFI's Akantior as the first therapy anywhere in the world for acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), an ultra-rare parasitic infection that can lead to blindness.