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Ulcerative keratitis associated with contact lens wear

Author(s) -

MJayahar Bharathi,

Rengappa Ramakrishnan,

Meenakshi Ravindran,

CShiv Kumar,

S. Padmavathy,

S Mittal

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

indian journal of ophthalmology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542

H-Index - 51

eISSN - 1998-3689

pISSN - 0301-4738

DOI - 10.4103/0301-4738.29500

Subject(s) - keratitis , medicine , contact lens , pseudomonas aeruginosa , ophthalmology , microbiology and biotechnology , dermatology , microbiological culture , bacteria , biology , genetics

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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