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Microbe warning over contact lens solutions

Contact lens wearers should choose their cleaning solutions carefully, as not all are able to kill potentially harmful microbes.

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News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020130-02

Published

30 January 2002

Acanthamoeba is a leading cause of eye infection on contact lens wearers, particularly in people that use soft lenses. It can cause keratis of the eye and may eventually lead to blindness. In the British Journal of Ophthalmology, K. Hiti and colleagues, from the University of Vienna, Austria, tested the ability of three types of cleaning solutions for soft contact lenses to kill the single-cell organism Acanthamoeba (Br J Ophthalmol 2002, 86:144-146).


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