TY - JOUR
A1 - Bharathi, M
A1 - Ramakrishnan, R
A1 - Meenakshi, R
A1 - Kumar, C
A1 - Padmavathy, S
A1 - Mittal, S
T1 - Ulcerative keratitis associated with contact lens wear
Y1 - 2007/1/1
JF - Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
JO - Indian J Ophthalmol
SP - 64
EP - 67
VL - 55
IS - 1
UR - https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/article.asp?issn=0301-4738;year=2007;volume=55;issue=1;spage=64;epage=67;aulast=Bharathi
DO - 10.4103/0301-4738.29500
N2 - 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.
ER -