Even though microbial keratitis is a preventable cause of blindness, it's a complex infection to treat, and many patients ...

Brett Bielory, MD, discusses his poster at the ASCRS annual meeting, which focuses on an under-diagnosed corneal pathology: neurotrophic keratitis.

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 ...

1 Moorfields Eye Hospital, 162 City Rd ... Acanthamoeba or Nocardia infection. PCR for microbial keratitis is a promising technique and offers a rapid, sensitive and specific test for multiple ...

such as orbital cellulitis (an infection of the tissues around the eye that can spread to the brain if untreated), infectious keratitis (a corneal infection that can cause scarring if not treated ...

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.