Contact Lens
New study finds resistant organisms at core of soft contact lens corneal infections
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, February 17th, 2008
In 2006, Bausch & Lomb withdrew its ReNu with MoistureLoc contact lens solution because a high proportion of corneal infections were associated with it. Now in a new study from University Hospitals Case Medical Center, researchers show that these infections were fueled and made resistant to treatment by the formation of a highly resistant structure of microbial cells held together with a glue-like matrix material. Scientists call this conglomeration of cells biofilms.
"Once they live in that type of state, the cells become resistant to lens solutions and immune to the body’s own defense system," said Mahmoud A. Ghannoum, Ph.D., director of the Center for Medical...
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