Warning about bacterial contamination of therapeutic contact lenses.
Three of twenty-six soft therapeutic contact lenses were found to have bacterial contaminants in their original sealed manufacturers' containers. We wish to alert clinicians to this danger.
O'Neill
D P
DP
Moorfields Eye Hospital, London.
Matheson
M M
MM
D003262:Contact Lenses, Extended-Wear / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004866:Equipment Contamination; D006801:Humans; D013242:Sterilization