Table 1.

Summary of case details

	Patient details
	Case 1	Case 2	Case 3	Case 4
Sex	Male	Male	Male	Male
Age	22	16	21	17
Eye	Left	Left	Right	Left
Refraction	−1.75/−0.25×50	−4.50	−3.50	−5.00/−1.50×5
Lens brand	CibaVision Focus Night and Day	Bausch & Lomb Pure Vision	Bausch & Lomb PureVision	CibaVision Focus Night and Day
Duration of EWSCL use	12 months	12 months	6 weeks	12 months
Pattern of wear	Monthly continuous wear	Monthly continuous wear	Daily wear, changing to 24 hours' continuous wear just before presentation	Monthly continuous wear
Duration of wear	10 days	7 days	24 hours	2 days
Microscopy	Insufficient specimen, no PMN or organisms seen	Fungal elements on Blankophor preparation. No organisms on Gram stain	PMN +, no organisms seen	No PMN, no organisms seen
Culture	Serratia marcescens (sheep blood agar plate)	Acinetobacter (enrichment broth) Penicillium (Sabouraud agar)	Heavy growth of Corynebacterium (sheep blood agar plate)	α Haemolytic streptococcus, in enrichment broth
Contact lens culture	Serratia marcescens	Yeast from left lens; Penicillium from right lens	Not available	No growth
Other risk factors	Swam in lenses 2 weeks earlier	Swam in lenses 1 week earlier		Swam in a different pair of lenses 3 days earlier
Last corrected VA (time)	VAR=6/6–1 (2 weeks)	VAL=6/7.5 (8 days)	Unavailable	VAL=6/7.5 (1 week)