Recent approaches to combat various infections in eye

Abstract

The prevalence of various eye related disorder is increasing rapidly among the global population and the microorganism borne ocular infections are emerging as biggest threat to the healthy functioning of eye during the past few years. Conjunctivitis, keratitis, endophthalmitis, blepharitis, uveitis, cellulitis, and ocular herpes are a few of the more common ocular illnesses. The arrival of novel technologies including nanotechnology and ocular implant are giving a hope to the healthcare sector via improved therapeutic potential and safety profile in the field of ocular infections treatment. This article enlisted major ocular infections, along with the physiology, prevention and treatment methods. The review article also highlighted information related to the available treatments for various ocular infections and recent patent insight of emerging technologies.