title: [An epidemic of pseudomonas keratitis due to permanent-wear contact lenses (author's transl)].
abstract: In 1977 thirty-three patients (35 eyes) with permanent-wear contact lenses presented with keratitis in varying degrees of severity. Among the nine cases investigated bacteriologically (including some contact lenses) three showed no organisms, while six were found to have pseudomonas aeruginosa. The contact lenses all came from the same optician, where shortly beforehand the patients had had their lenses either replaced or checked. The inspection of the optical establishment revealed faultless application of steril technique. Nevertheless it must be assumed that contamination of the lenses had had occurred there.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001207:Asepsis; D003263:Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007634:Keratitis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000635:transmission*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009907:Optometry; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013557:Switzerland
vernacular_title: Eine Epidemie von Pseudomonas-Keratitiden bei Trägern von Dauerkontaktlinsen.