Microbiological Keratitis in a Countryside City of Brazil

Sao Jose do Rio Preto Medical School

Status: Completed

Conditions: Keratitis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00949468

Opht2009

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to identify the predisposing factors, epidemiological features and clinical and microbiological diagnosis of infectious keratitis in two public referral centers of ophthalmology in a countryside city of Brazil.

Enrollment: 74 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients admitted with clinical suspicious of keratitis from June 2008 to June 2009 (Keratitis group)
• 37 volunteers without any ophthalmologic claim, recruited in the two ophthalmology centers listed (Control study group)

Exclusion criteria

• In the Control Study Group, no infectious ocular disease was accepted

Trial design

74 participants in 2 patient groups

Keratitis group

Description:

37 patients with keratitis

Control Study Group

Description:

37 control volunteers