Association between wearing habits and bacterial

Association between wearing habits and bacterial

The lens care systems of one hundred sixty-three (163) soft contact lens wearers of the College of Science, De La Salle University, Taft, graduate student population were analyzed. One hundred sixteen (116) of them have contaminated lens care systems. The most frequently contaminated items of the le...

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Main Author: Lee, Anthony Chua
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Animo Repository 1993
Subjects:
Contact lenses
Hydrophilic
De La Salle University > Students
De La Salle University College of Science
Micro-organisms > Identification
Bacterial growth
Microbial sensitivity tests
Soft contact lenses
Bacteriology
Biotechnology
Microbial Physiology
Online Access:https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/1513
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Institution: De La Salle University
Language: English
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Summary:The lens care systems of one hundred sixty-three (163) soft contact lens wearers of the College of Science, De La Salle University, Taft, graduate student population were analyzed. One hundred sixteen (116) of them have contaminated lens care systems. The most frequently contaminated items of the lens care systems were the lenses and lens receptacles with percent contamination of 58.90 percent and 57.06 percent, respectively. Pseudomonas aeruginosa was the leading bacterial contaminant isolated from the lens care systems. Staphylococcus epidermidis ranked second. Six variables were observed to be significantly associated with contamination of the lens care system. These included the age of the lens wearer, the age of the contact lens, the number of years the wearer was using contact lenses, frequency of cleaning lenses with help from optical shop, frequency of cleaning lens receptacles, and place of storage of the lens care system.

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