Association between wearing habits and bacterial

• 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
• Institution: De La Salle University

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.