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Three Decades of Contact Lens-associated Microbial Keratitis in a Referral Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Title
Three Decades of Contact Lens-associated Microbial Keratitis in a Referral Hospital in São Paulo, Brazil.
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Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia, July 2021
DOI 10.5935/0004-2749.20210079
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Jorge Agi, Talita Trevizani Rocchetti, Maria Cecília Zorat Yu, Michelle Lima Farah, Fabio Ramos, Denise de Freitas, Ana Luisa Höfling-Lima

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze patient data and the laboratory results of corneal samples collected from patients followed at the Ophthalmology Department, Hospital São Paulo, Brazil over a 30-year period, and correlate the analize with contact lens wearing. Corneal samples from patients diagnosed clinically with microbial keratitis between January 1987 and December 2016 were included in this study. Cultures that were positive for bacteria, fungi, and Acanthamoeba spp. were analyzed retrospectively. To ascertain if the number of patients with contact-lens-associated microbial keratitis (as a risk factor for microbial infection) changed over time, the analysis was divided into three decades: 1987-1996, 1997-2006, and 2007-2016. Information pertaining to patient gender and age, as well as type of organism isolated, were compared among these periods. The corneal samples of 10.562 patients with a clinical diagnosis of microbial keratitis were included in the study, among which 1.848 cases were related to the use of contact lenses. The results revealed that the frequency of contact-lens-associated microbial keratitis increased over the last two decades. Overall, females had contact-lens-associated microbial keratitis more frequently (59.5%). Patients aged 19-40 years also had contact-lens-associated microbial keratitis more frequently in all study periods. Staphylococcus spp. and Pseudomonas spp. were the most frequent Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, respectively, in the microbial keratitis groups. Among the fungal cases of microbial keratitis, filamentous fungi were the most frequent fungi over the entire study period, with Fusarium spp. being the most frequent fungi in the group with microbial keratitis not associated with contact lens wearing (p<0.001). Samples positive for Acanthamoeba spp. and Pseudomonas spp. were significantly correlated with contact-lens-associated microbial keratitis (p<0.001). Females and young adults aged 19-40 years exhibited the highest frequency of contact-lens-associated microbial keratitis in our study. Staphylococcus spp. and Fusarium spp. were the predominant bacteria and fungi, respectively, isolated from corneal samples. Pseudomonas spp. and Acanthamoeba spp. were significantly correlated with contact-lens-associated microbial keratitis in this study.

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Unknown 12 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 1 8%
Lecturer 1 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 8%
Researcher 1 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 8%
Other 1 8%
Unknown 6 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 2 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 8%
Materials Science 1 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 8%
Unknown 7 58%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 July 2021.
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#16,059,145
of 25,392,582 outputs
Outputs from Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia
#135
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#237,300
of 446,418 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia
#2
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