ReviewExperimental and therapeutic medicine2022
Diagnostic methods for the etiological assessment of infectious corneal pathology (Review).
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- Patterns of Bacterial Infection and Antibiotic Resistance in Canine Corneal Ulcers: A Retrospective Analysis (Berlin, Germany, 2021-2024).Veterinary ophthalmology · 2026Article
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- A Tear-Based Approach for Rapid Identification of Bacterial Pathogens in Corneal Ulcers Using Nanopore Sequencing.Translational vision science & technology · 2025Observational
- Acanthamoeba keratitis: from pathophysiology to prevention, a contemporary clinical perspective.Medical hypothesis, discovery & innovation ophthalmology journal · 2025Review
- Successful treatment of Keratitis caused by Mycobacterium chelonae and an overview of previous cases in Europe.Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials · 2024Review
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- In the eye of the ophthalmologist: the corneal microbiome in microbial keratitis.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2024Article
- Artificial-Intelligence-Enhanced Analysis of In Vivo Confocal Microscopy in Corneal Diseases: A Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Corneal Specialists' Confidence in Identifying Causal Organisms of Microbial Keratitis.Current eye research · 2024Article
- Transcriptional profiling specifies the pathogen-specific human host response to infectious keratitis.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023Article
- An Unnamed Human OralCase reports in ophthalmological medicine · 2023Article
- The observation of anterior segment in children with an R124L mutation corneal dystrophy by anterior segment optical coherence tomography and in vivo confocal microscopy.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Infectious keratitis is a leading cause of visual morbidity, including blindness, all across the globe, especially in developing countries. Prompt and adequate treatment is mandatory to maintain corneal integrity and to recover the best possible final visual acuity. Although in most of the cases practitioners chose to employ empirical broad-spectrum antimicrobial medication that is usually effective, in some instances, they face the need to identify the causative agent to establish the appropriate therapy. An extensive search was conducted on published literature before December 2020 concerning the main laboratory investigations used to identify the microbial agents found in infectious keratitis, their indications, advantages, and disadvantages, as well as the results reported by other studies concerning different diagnostic tools. At present, the gold standard for diagnosis is still considered to be the isolation of microorganisms in cultures, along with the examination of smears, but other newer techniques, such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR), next-generation sequencing (NGS), and
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