RARE DISEASERESEARCH ATLAS

ORPHA:648665

Infectious scleritis

high confidenceDisorder

Publications

328

69.3th percentile

Trials

1

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

929

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Research stages

Trial readiness signals

Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”

2/6 stages with a signal

An interventional trial matched this condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov — see trials below.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    328 matched papers (217 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot found

    No HPO disease–phenotype associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs

  4. Animal modelNot found

    No Alliance genotype “model of” associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs

  5. Orphan designationNot found

    No FDA or EMA orphan-drug designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name Source

  6. Interventional trialPresent

    1 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov

Biology

Genes and phenotypes

Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.

Do we know what causes it?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

None returned for this Mondo ID. That often means “not linked under this ID,” not “no clinical features.”

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

None returned for this Mondo ID. Empty here is not proof that no model organism work exists under another name or gene.

Monarch fetch 2026-07-29

Therapies

Designations, candidates, and chemicals

FDA OOPD and EMA orphan designations, Open Targets clinical candidates, and CTD chemical associations via MyDisease.info. These never change the interventional-trial headline.

Orphan designation (FDA · EMA)

No designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name on the FDA OOPD mirror or EMA orphan register. Absence here is not proof that none exists under another wording.

Open Targets candidates

No drugs or clinical candidates returned for this Mondo ID on Open Targets.

CTD chemicals (MyDisease.info)

No CTD chemical associations returned for this Mondo ID.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

328

328 papers have ever been published on this condition (under this name). For scale, breast cancer has over 700,000. Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=3967) is 59.

328 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 59 (publications denominator n=3967).

217 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 69.3th percentile (publications denominator)

Phrase hits: 328 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

929

Distinct author names in 200 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

People publishing on this condition (sampled Europe PMC records). Affiliation is the most recent found in that sample.

  1. 01
    Murthy SI10 papers · 2025

    Cornea and Anterior Segment Service, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Rapuano CJ5 papers · 2025

    Wills Eye Hospital, Cornea Service, Philadelphia, USA.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Sharma S5 papers · 2025

    Radiodiagnosis, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Agarwal M4 papers · 2025

    Department of Vitreoretina Services, Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital, 5027, Kedarnath Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi, 110002, India.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Biswas J4 papers · 2024

    Uveitis & Ocular Pathology Department, Vision Research Foundation, 18, College Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai, 600006, Tamil Nadu India.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Cantarini L4 papers · 2026

    Research Center of Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases and Behçet's Disease, Rheumatology Unit of the Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and Neurosciences, University of Siena, Italy. cantariniluca@hotmail.com.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Dutta Majumder P4 papers · 2024

    Department of Uvea, Medical and Vision Research Foundations, Sankara Nethralaya, Tamil Nadu, India.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Fabiani C4 papers · 2026

    Ophthalmology Unit, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Neuroscience, University of Siena, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Frediani B4 papers · 2026

    Research Center of Systemic Autoinflammatory Diseases and Behçet's Disease, Rheumatology Unit of the Department of Medical Sciences, Surgery and Neurosciences, University of Siena, Italy.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Rothova A4 papers · 2024

    Department of Ophthalmology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

1

interventional trials for this specific condition

1 interventional trial matched this specific condition name; none in our sample are currently recruiting. 12 trials are registered for scleritis, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

Data as of 11 September 2026

1 interventional trial — more than 77.2% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5501 of 7126; this disease is at the 80.1th percentile).

high confidence · 80.1th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

1 interventional trials matched after quoted-phrase search and title/condition post-filter.

No currently recruiting studies in the matched set. Open the same search on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Broader category: scleritis

12

Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.

Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.

Other registries (secondary)

Broader net from EU CTIS, ISRCTN, and ICTRP when available — deduped against ClinicalTrials.gov IDs already counted above. Dual-model LLM relevance gates what we keep. These rows are not added to the interventional headline.

raw 6 · after dedupe 6 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 6 · dropped 0 · fetched 2026-07-30

Source notes: ictrp: Error: ICTRP public search unavailable (WHO portal is SPA-only; SOAP needs partnership). Tried: https://apps.who.int/tri

No secondary-registry studies passed dual-model relevance for this condition name (after dedupe).

Uncertain / not reviewed (6)

Where to find support

Condition-specific patient organisations, when Orphanet lists them, are on the disease’s Orphanet page. We also link umbrella groups that support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families.

Orphanet entry for Infectious scleritis — check Associations / patient organisations on that page.

India — NPRD

Last verified 2026-07-26

This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.

Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.

How we counted this

Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.

"Infectious scleritis"

Run this search on Europe PMC

ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):

"Infectious scleritis"

Interventional trials matched via: phrase (mesh = registered under a MeSH descriptor no name phrase would catch; recall-expansion = gene / selected parent terms used only for trials).

Study-type breakdown: 1 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"scleritis"

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • No synonyms dropped by stoplist
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus

Ingested 2026-07-27T19:52:55.062Z