Clinical and Microbiological Profile of Various Microorganisms Causing Keratitis in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Jaipur, India

The cornea is the anterior part of the eye covering the pupil. It is the most efficient and first refracting surface of the eye. The healthy cornea is deprived of both vascular and lymphatic channels. Infective keratitis is a common and dreadful ocular infection of the cornea by infective organisms like bacteria, fungi, virus or parasite (O’Brien, 1997). Its main clinical presentation is corneal ulcer that is defined as a loss of corneal epithelium with infiltration and suppuration of underlying stroma accompanied with signs of inflammation with or without hypopyon.