Antimicrobial efficacy of multi-purpose contact lens disinfectant solutions following evaporation

Contact Lens and Anterior Eye

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 183-187

  Kilvington, Simon ^a   Powell, Charles H ^a   Lam, Anthony ^a   Lonnen, James ^b  

^a Advanced Medical Optics Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba; Alexidine; Candida; Disinfection; Evaporation; Fusarium; Le Chatelier's principle; Multi purpose solutions

Indexed keywords

BIOCIDE; CONTACT LENS SOLUTION; DISINFECTANT AGENT;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; EVAPORATION; FUSARIUM SOLANI; KERATOMYCOSIS; MICELLIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TROPHOZOITE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTACT LENS SOLUTIONS; DESICCATION;

EID: 79960398754     PISSN: 13670484     EISSN: 14765411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clae.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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