Infective keratitis in soft contact lens wearers.

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There were 8 cases of infective (bacterial) keratitis reported in wearers of soft contact lenses. Of them, 4 had normal eyes and were wearing lenses on a continual basis. One was wearing a lens continually for therapeutic reasons. Three others were wearing lenses daily or intermittently. The 4 latter cases were using contaminated lens solutions. Of the continual lens wearers, 2 lost vision of the point of blindness. A significant factor in their bad outcome was the fact that both lived in areas remote from adequate ophthalmic services. Serratia liquefaciens was implicated in 1 case. This was probably the only reported case of corneal abscess due to this organism in the past 16 yr. S. marcescens was grown in another case from the lens solutions and carrying case.

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