Amebic infection of the eye

ABSTRACT

A 60-year-old male with previous filtration operation developed severe ocular infection 6 hours after splashing his eyes with tap water. Swab from the fornix demonstrated ameba proteus. A 17-year-old girl, wearing soft contact lens, suddenly developed irritation in the right eye and later on developed characteristic opaque corneal ring in the mid-periphery due to acanthamoeba. A young male developed chronic corneal ulcer which did not respond to any medical treatment. He had penetrating corneal graft. Histological examination of the corneal button demonstrated trophozoite stage of acanthamoeba