Presence of Acanthamoeba and diversified bacterial flora in poorly maintained contact lens cases

Acanthamoeba can cause visually destructive Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK) in contact lens (CL) users. The purpose of this study was to determine whether Acanthamoeba was present in the CL cases of CL wearers and to develop techniques to prevent the contaminations. To accomplish this, 512 CL case sampl...

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Autores principales: Miyazaki, Dai, Eguchi, Hiroshi, Kuwahara, Tomomi, Nakayama-Imaohji, Haruyuki, Inaba, Masamaru, Itoi, Motozumi, Ueda, Kiichi, Ohashi, Yuichi, Sado, Kazushige, Mizutani, Satoshi, Miyamoto, Hitoshi, Sasaki, Shin-ichi, Shimizu, Yumiko, Inoue, Yoshitsugu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7387515/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32724150
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-69554-2

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