Question: What organism do we worry about with contact lens patients?

Answer: Contact lens wearers have a higher incidence of pseudomonas, which is a dangerous bacterium to have infect the cornea. Any contact lens wearer with a cornea ulcer needs to be cultured and covered with more powerful antibiotics like a fluoroquinilone or fortified antibiotics.


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Comment by gashaw — September 13, 2009 @ 9:43 am


Getting ready to take my NCLE soon and looking at various websites, this is a great one. It helps support my spectacle backround and beefs up further questions I have. I thought Acanthamoeba was the big culprit!

Comment by Cindy — May 10, 2011 @ 10:18 pm


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