Table 2.

Hypermia, chemosis, superficial punctate keratitis, subepithelial corneal infiltrates values and percentage of patients with positive PCR test of both groups at the two time-points of the study

	Study group		Control group
	Baseline	7 day	Baseline	7 day
Eyes with hypermia	80	55	80	66
Hypermia (mean values)	3.05	0.84*	3.16	1.3*
N. of eyes with chemosis	80	29	80	53
Chemosis (mean values)	2.67	0.36**	2,46	0.82**
Eyes with SPK	25	8	20	10
Eyes with SEIs	2	6	1	6
Patients with positive PCR test (%)	34	6***	32	13***

SPK superficial punctate keratitis, SEIs subepithelial corneal infiltrates

^*P < 0.05

^**P < 0.05

^***P < 0.05