Corneal Infection

There are two lines of research we are pursuing in our lab currently.

According to several sources, infectious keratitis is the fifth leading cause of blindness in the world.

Microbial keratitis is a diverse and changing landscape.

Kenneth F. Maxcy, MD, authority on infectious disease, wrote in a study published in JAMA in 1919, referring to the Spanish flu that spread worldwide during 1918-1919:

The SARS-CoV-2 RNA virus can infect a human through the conjunctiva. The ocular surface can also serve as a reservoir for replication and transmission of the disease to others. These facts affect practicing ophthalmologists in many ways.