Ulcerative keratitis associated with contact lens wear.
Indian J Ophthalmol
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2007 Jan-Feb; 55(1): 64-7
Article
in English
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-70307
ABSTRACT
To review the microbiological profile of ulcerative keratitis associated with contact lens (CL)-wear, 35 patients with culture-proven CL-associated microbial keratitis were studied between September 1999 and September 2002. Corneal scrapes and CL-care products were collected and were subjected to microbiological evaluation. Gram-negative bacilli alone were recovered from the corneal scrapes of all 35 (100%) patients, all 70 (100%) CL storage case wells and also from CL-care solution of six (17.14%) of the 35 patients. There was a significantly higher number of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (71.43%) isolated from eyes with CL-related keratitis than other bacterial isolates (28.57%) (P<0.001). Microbial contamination of CL storage cases was a great risk for gram-negative bacterial infection among soft CL-wearers.
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IMSEAR (South-East Asia)
Main subject:
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Corneal Ulcer
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Drug Contamination
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Incidence
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Adolescent
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Contact Lens Solutions
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Contact Lenses
Type of study:
Incidence study
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Prognostic study
Language:
English
Journal:
Indian J Ophthalmol
Year:
2007
Type:
Article
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