[Urgent keratoplasty for a corneal infection by actinomyces (author's transl)]

A 41-year-old man suffering from an actinomyces infection of the cornea of his right eye, was treated unsuccessfully with antibiotics especially intensive local and systematic therapy with penicillin, paracentesis of the anterior chamber with penicillin irrigation, and cautery of the corneal ulcer were fruitless. Finally, the corneal infection was cured by an urgent perforating keratoplasty.