External ocular surface and lens microbiota in contact lens wearers with corneal infiltrates during extended wear of hydrogel lenses

Eye and Contact Lens

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 90-95

  Willcox, Mark ^a   Sharma, Savitri ^b   Naduvilath, Thomas J ^a   Sankaridurg, Padmaja R ^a   Gopinathan, Usha ^b   Holden, Brien A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Adverse event; CLARE; Contact lens; Haemophilus; Staphylococcus

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYETHYL METHACRYLATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFILTRATE; ASYMPTOMATIC INFILTRATIVE KERATITIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTACT LENS INDUCED ACUTE RED EYE; CONTACT LENS INDUCED PERIPHERAL ULCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; EXTENDED WEAR CONTACT LENS; EYE INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; INFILTRATIVE KERATITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTACT LENSES, EXTENDED-WEAR; CORNEAL ULCER; EYELIDS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; HYDROGEL; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LOGISTIC MODELS; METHACRYLATES; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 79952281928     PISSN: 15422321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICL.0b013e31820d12db     Document Type: Article

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