Prevalence of infectious keratitis in Central China

BMC Ophthalmology

Table 3 Infectious keratitis categories

	No. of examined participants	VK	BK	FK	Total
	No. of examined participants	No. (%)	No. (%)	No. (%)	No. (%)
Rural areas	14 728	9 (0.061)	15 (0.101)	4 (0.027)	28 (0.190)
Urban areas	11 577	8 (0.069)	3 (0.026)	0 (0.000)	11 (0.095)
Total	26 305	17 (0.065)	18 (0.068)	4 (0.015)	39 (0.148)

The distribution of infectious keratitis subtypes was as follows: 17/39 (43.6%) viral keratitis, 18/39 (46.2%) bacterial keratitis, and 4/39 (10.2%) fungal keratitis. The prevalences of viral keratitis, bacterial keratitis, and fungal keratitis were 0.065, 0.068, and 0.015%, respectively.
VK, viral keratitis; BK, bacterial keratitis; FK, fungal keratitis.

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