Epidemiology and etiologic diagnosis of infectious keratitis in Uberlandia, Brazil.

Purpose: To study risk factors, microbiological characteristics, and clinical course of nonviral infectious keratitis diagnosed in a referral service of ophthalmology.

Methods: A total of 65 charts of patients with microbial keratitis were retrospectively reviewed at the Clinical Hospital of Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil, from July 2001 through August 2004. All cases were submitted to microbiological tests and treated according to local protocol.