A cross-sectional clinical and epidemiological overview of a cohort of acute infectious keratoconjunctivitis among war-displaced populations in Kassala State, Sudan, 2024.

Among 417 patients, 231 (55.4%) were female, and 353 (84.7%) lived in urban areas.

The most frequent signs were conjunctival injection (38.8%), subconjunctival injection (35.7%), follicles/papillae (31.2%), periauricular lymphadenopathy (18.0%), punctate keratitis (11.0%), and membranes (3.8%).

Clinicians recorded suspected bacterial superinfection complicating viral keratoconjunctivitis (43.9%), suspected adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis (29.3%), and suspected bacterial keratoconjunctivitis (21.3%) as the most frequent categories.