
Acanthamoeba Keratitis Risk for Contact Lens Users
Ophthalmology Journal
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Kantalenswear and the Risk of Infectious Keratitis
Ophthalmologists have been seeing more acanthomyber than in the past. The fungus is also very difficult to treat, and we don't see so much of it here relatively. A contact lens solution called Oxi-pol had a threefold high risk of ac anthomyber keratitis similar to that caused by bathing in contact lenses. It was only available in the UK and in France to some extent where it was very widely used.
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