Abstract:Objective To investigate the clinical characteristics of diabetic patients with infectious keratitis. Methods A retrospective study was carried out on 320 diabetic patients with infectious keratitis in accordance with the same diagnostic criteria and 320 non-diabetic patients with infectious keratitis in our hospital from June 2006 to June 2015. The clinical data of the patients in the two groups before and after operation were compared and analyzed, and the characteristics of infectious keratitis were studied. Results The rates of hypertension, high triglyceride, high total cholesterol and eye medication history in the keratitis patients with diabetes mellitus were much higher than those in the keratitis patients without diabetes. The rate of fungal infection in the patients with diabetes mellitus was 40.31%, while that of the patients without diabetes was 20.00%, the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). Further analysis showed that in the patients with diabetes the main pathogenic fungi for keratitis were Fusarium and mycelium accounting for 59.69% of the fungal infection, the common infectious bacteria were Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus epidermidis accounting for 47.54% of the bacterial infection. Conclusions Infectious keratitis is a common cause of blindness in diabetic patients. Etiological examination and active prevention should be done as early as possible. When infectious keratitis occurs, different measures should be taken according to the characteristics of different pathogens to restore visual function.