"eye infection" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
For example: "I was diagnosed with an eye infection so I had to go to the doctor for treatment."
An eye infection I lost sleep over.
He excused one juror for illness, because of an eye infection.
He returned from Egypt not just with malaria but with trachoma, a searingly painful eye infection.
One day, a tenant farmer named Sergio, our neighbor, woke with a terrible eye infection.
Robert Karlsson of Sweden withdrew last week because of an eye infection.
With apologies to Gay Talese, Bob Costas has an eye infection.
Two years ago, I convinced myself I had an eye infection.
Tell your doctor if you have an eye infection or other type of eye problem.
To mimic the tear turnover, we designed a porcine eye infection model under flow conditions.
Everything began in early September, after Nikodinov withdrew from the Goodwill Games competition because of an eye infection.
Disappointingly, the doctor doesn't have anything to help clear up an eye infection that's bothered me recently.
