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Purpose: To study the demographic characteristics, predisposing factors, and latest trends of causative organisms and to analyze the prognostic factors of visual outcome in microbial keratitis. Methods: A retrospective study of patients diagnosed with microbial keratitis who required hospital admission in the period between January 2018 and December 2020 in Taiping Hospital, Perak, Malaysia. Results: A total of 75 eyes of 74 patients who were admitted to the hospital were studied. The male to female ratio was 13.8:1. Seventy percent of patients in this study were within the productive age group between 20 and 59 years old, with a mean age of 48 years old, and 51.4% of them were labourers. Cornea foreign bodies (42, 56%) were the most common predisposing factors and were associated with good visual outcomes (P |
