Advances of the treatment for fungal keratitis
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    Fungal keratitis(FK)is an infectious corneal disease caused by pathogenic fungi and has an extremely high rate of blindness. With the development of modern medicine, drugs or surgery treament rate had more obvious enhancement than before for fungal infection in patients at early stage or with drug sensitivity. However, difficulty of being controlled through drugs, resulting the delayed healing of ulcer, deterioration of disease progression are still one of the main clinical causes of corneal blindness at present for fungal infection in patients at advanced stage and without drug sensitivity. In this paper, we reviewed about the drugs and surgical treatment progress of FK according to the studies in the past 5a at home and abroad.

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Ya-Ping Jiang, Yi-Hui Chen. Advances of the treatment for fungal keratitis. Guoji Yanke Zazhi( Int Eye Sci) 2015;15(9):1542-1545

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  • Received:May 05,2015
  • Revised:August 04,2015
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  • Online: August 27,2015
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