background: amoebic keratitis introduced as a painful corneal infection which sometimes lead to poor vision and blind-ness. the main goal of this study was to report amoebic keratitis during ten years from 1997-2007 in patients who was sus-pected to have amoebic keratitis and referred to parasitology laboratory, school of public health, tehran univer¬sity of medical sciences, iran. other aim wa...