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This image depicted two sides of a Petri dish (reverse LT, front Rt), which had been inoculated with a specimen of fluid, retrieved from inside the right side of a contact lens case, used by a Connecticut Fusarium keratitis patient, and had subsequently grown a filamentous colony of Fusarium oxysporum fungal organisms. The type of growth medium was Potato Dextrose agar. It was the number of affected individuals, which had increased dramatically, predominantly in persons wearing contact lenses that had warranted this epidemiologic study. The laboratory received cultures, which came from two sources, Fusarium spp. isolated from the eyes of patients with fungal keratitis, and cultures from contact lenses, cases and/or lens solution. The details of the study are being publish in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Mark Lindsley, Sc.D. D(ABMM), Lynette Benjamin, Shirley McClinton
Creation Date: 2006
Photo Credit: James Gathany
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