title: The microbial flora in extended-wear soft contact-lens wearers.
abstract: Of 857 cultures of material collected from the eyelids, conjunctivae, and contact lenses of 51 extended-wear soft-contact-lens wearers, 44 (5%) grew potential pathogens. The aphakic patients wearing contact lenses had fewer recoverable pathogens (24 of 295 or 8%) than a group of preoperative cataract patients (63 of 295 or 21%). On five occasions, positive cultures accompanied clinical symptoms, and on three occasions, repeated cultures grew the same potential pathogen.
mesh_terms: D001036:Aphakia, Postcataract / Q000382:microbiology; D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D002386:Cataract / Q000382:microbiology; D003263:Contact Lenses, Hydrophilic; D005123:Eye / Q000382:microbiology*; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D013291:Streptococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification