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Higher incidence of Acanthamoeba keratitis persists more than 10 years after outbreak
PHILADELPHIA — The incidence of Acanthamoeba keratitis, although still rare, is about 10 times greater than before an outbreak of the disease occurred in 2004, according to a study presented here.“Acanthamoeba keratitis, after the outbreak in 2004, really reached a peak in 2007, but we saw that the incidence never returned to its pre-2004 baseline,” Travis C. Jenkins, MD, said at the Wills Eye Alumni Conference.