According to several sources, infectious keratitis is the fifth leading cause of blindness in the world.
In the United States, it is further down the list, with just more than 70,000 new cases of vision-threatening infectious keratitis diagnosed each year. With about 18,000 ophthalmologists in America, that means if divided evenly, each of us would see only four to six high-risk infectious keratitis cases each year. Many mild cases that are not vision threatening are treated empirically with a commercial prescription topical fluoroquinolone with rapid resolution. More central and severe (Read more...)