Pre-existing blindness in a cohort of patients with bacterial keratitis
- Catherine E Oldenburg1,
- Aileen Sy1,
- Muthiah Srinivasan2,
- Christine M Toutain-Kidd3,
- Jeena Mascarenhas2,
- Meenakshi Ravindran4,
- Revathi Rajaraman5,
- Elizabeth J Esterberg1,
- Jaya D Chidambaram1,
- Nisha R Acharya1,
- Thomas M Lietman1,
- Michael E Zegans3
- 1Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, USA
- 2Aravind Eye Care System, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
- 3Department of Surgery (Ophthalmology), Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
- 4Aravind Eye Care System, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India
- 5Aravind Eye Care System, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
- Correspondence to Michael E Zegans, Dartmouth Medical School, Section of Ophthalmology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03755, USA; michael.e.zegans{at}dartmouth.edu
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Contributors CEO designed the study and data collection tools, cleaned, analysed and interpreted data, drafted and revised the manuscript. AS helped to design data collection tools, collected data, interpreted, drafted and revised the manuscript. MS designed data collection tools, collected data, oversaw data collection for the entire study and revised the manuscript. CMT-K designed data collection tools, collected data and revised the manuscript. JM collected data and revised the manuscript. MR collected data and revised the manuscript. RR collected data and revised the manuscript. EJE collected, analysed and interpreted data and revised the manuscript. JDC helped to design study, collected data and revised the manuscript. NRA helped to design study and data collection tools, analysed and interpreted data and revised the manuscript. TML helped to design study and data collection tools, collected data, analysed and interpreted data and revised the manuscript. MEZ designed study and data collection tools, collected data, analysed and interpreted data and drafted and revised the manuscript.
- Accepted 14 May 2011
- Published Online First 7 June 2011
Introduction
Microbial keratitis is an important cause of visual loss worldwide, although the resulting blindness is generally assumed to be monocular.1 2 Vision …
