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Microbial Profile and Clinical Outcomes of Fungal Keratitis at a Single-Center Tertiary Care Hospital.

Maylander MenardYesha S ShahInna G StrohSidra ZafarManjari SriparnaNancy ZhangAnk A AgarwalNakul ShekhawatDivya SrikumaranFasika A Woreta
Published in: Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) (2022)
Fungal keratitis is visually devastating. Infections with filamentous fungi predominated over yeast and were generally treated more aggressively both medically and surgically. Filamentous and yeast keratitis had similar durations of infections and visual outcomes. Antifungal susceptibility testing influenced treatment in 80% of cases in which it was performed.
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