TABLE 3.

Frequency of isolation (%) of organisms from soft contact lenses by study

CNS	Bacillus	Corynebacteria sp	Micrococcus	Propionibacterium sp	Pseudomonas sp	Serratia sp	Staphylococcus aureus	Streptococcus pneumoniae	Streptococcus viridans	Yeast/fungi	Other Gram−
038,39	033,38,39,69,70,87,100,101	038,39,69,70,100	014,35,38,39,69,70,87,100,101	019,39,69,70	014,39	014,33,35,38,39,69,70,100,101	033,35,39,70,100	014,33,35,38,39,69,70,87,100,101	014,35,38,39,55,70,87,100,101	019,35,38,39,55,69,70,87,102	014
2.469	0.5102	0.935	0.5102	1.456	0.8–1.623	0.156	0.1736	0.4a55	1.2 (back surface)18	0.5–1.823	1.269
3.870	219	2.6–4.323	0.8–4.323	4–5814	1.256	0.923	1.0–1.523	0.5–1.323	1.5–3.323	1.2 (back surface)18	219
19.6100	1.8–3.223	4102	3.332		2.1100	1.2 (front surface) and 1.2 (back surface)18	1.2a55	0.656	3.769	2.1100	2a23
36.135	4.756	519	633	20.2–29.623	6102	1.2a55	219	1.2 (front surface) and 1.2 (back surface)18	633	5.4a56	2.1–5.8100
39–6714	5–714	633	8.456	4133	754	254,87	2.3 (front surface) and 1.2 (back surface)18			8–1114	2.835
39.4–39.923	854	6.732	954	7354	41.638	10102	3102			933	333, 102
41.456		8–1014	1219				487			15101	3.156
42.8–55101		9.156					514				439
46.732		11.4–32.5101					554				587
4836		2254					6.356				6.732
5619							12.5101				7.2a55
6333							21.269				7.770
71102							5038				9.5 (front surface) and 5 (back surface)18
8654											20101
											33.3 (Pseudomonas mirabilis)
											25 (Pseudomonas vulgaris)38
											38a54

Variations in isolation frequencies depend on whether a single occasion was sampled vs. multiple occasions.

^aEstimated from multiple sampling occasions in the article.