Contact Lens-associated Fungal Keratitis (Colour Image, Before Treatment)
Contact Lens-associated Fungal Keratitis (Colour Image, Before Treatment)
Contact Lens-associated Fungal Keratitis (Aspergillus flavus, Candida pulverina).
19 years of age, male contact lenses wearer with sudden decrease of vision at OS presented with keratitis at OS.
Colour image showing stromal infiltrates.
Conjunctival swab was sterile. Microbiological examination of the contact lens liquids identified Aspergillus flavus and Candida pulverina.
Michelson, Georg, Prof. Dr. med., Interdisciplinary Center of Ophthalmic Preventive Medicine and Imaging, Department of Ophthalmology, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen, Germany; Berta, Agnes, Dr.med., Augenklinik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg , Erlangen, Germany
