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 -