In vivo assessment of antimicrobial efficacy of silver-impregnated contact lens storage cases

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1641-1648

  Dantam, Jaya ^a,b   Zhu, Hua ^a,b   Willcox, Mark ^b   Ozkan, Jerome ^a   Naduvilath, Thomas ^a,b   Thomas, Varghese ^a   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

SILVER; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BALAFILCON A; SILICONE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTACT LENS; FEMALE; FUNGUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; KERATITIS; MALE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; OPEN STUDY; PAPILLARY CONJUNCTIVITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SILVER-IMPREGNATED CONTACT LENS STORAGE CASE; VISUAL ACUITY; DEVICES; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HYDROGEL; INSTRUMENTATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CONTACT LENSES; DISINFECTION; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FUNGI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SILICONES; SILVER;

EID: 84860697921     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8197     Document Type: Article

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