Authors: Noorjahan Sajid, Priyangee Sen, Etisha Nawani
Introduction: Microbial keratitis is a common, potentially vision-threatening ocular infection that may be caused by bacteria, fungi, viruses or parasites. Treating infective suppurative corneal ulcers as an ophthalmic emergency and quick administration of appropriate anti-microbial therapy is the need of the hour for saving the eye of the patient and preventing the catastrophe of life-long blindness Materials and Methods: This study was undertaken in the department of ophthalmology FH. Medical College, Agra & department of microbiology. 392 patients with a clinical diagnosis of infective corneal ulcer were enrolled for the study. A complete demographic profile, associate d risk factors, and microbial etiology were studied. Results: In our study, patients with infective keratitis were enrolled. We found 266 positive for bacterial, fungal and mixed culture.65.8% were male and 34.2% were female. In which 38% culture was positive for bacteria, 14.3 % was fugal positive and 5.1% was mixes isolates were found. In bacteria we found S.epidermidis (40%) was the most common and in fungal Aspergillus (60.7%) was common Conclusion: Fungal corneal ulcers were the most common type found in our study. Timely detection and appropriate management are recommended to prevent prolonged ocular morbidity and blindness. Keywords: Keratitis, Fungal, Bacterial, Corneal ulcers.
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