Aetiological diagnosis of microbial keratitis in South India - a study of 1618 cases.

Abstract

Bacterial and fungal infections occurred almost with equal frequency, the predominant bacterial and fungal species isolated being Streptococcus pneumoniae and Fusarium species respectively. The findings of our study show that there is a region wise variation in the predominance of corneal pathogens. This has an important public health implication for the initiation of therapy.