Biocidal efficacy of silver-impregnated contact lens storage cases in vitro

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-57

  Dantam, Jaya ^a,b   Zhu, Hua ^a,b   Stapleton, Fiona ^a,b  

^a BRIEN HOLDEN VISION INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; DISINFECTANT AGENT; SILVER DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELFTIA ACIDOVORANS; FUNGICIDAL ACTIVITY; FUSARIUM SOLANI; IN VITRO STUDY; INCUBATION TEMPERATURE; INCUBATION TIME; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SILVER IMPREGNATION; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL EYE INFECTION; BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISINFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; EQUIPMENT; FUNGAL EYE INFECTION; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CONTACT LENSES; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EYE INFECTIONS, BACTERIAL; EYE INFECTIONS, FUNGAL; FUNGI; OPHTHALMOLOGY; SILVER COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79952232520     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-4809     Document Type: Article

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