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Published in final edited form as: Ophthalmology. 2011 Feb 4;118(5):920–926. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.09.011

Table 5.

Concordance Between Corneal Tissue Pathology and Cultures of Contact Lens Paraphernalia Among 68 Individuals with Paraphernalia Cultured

	Contact Lens Storage Case			Contact Lens Solutions			Worn Contact Lens
Corneal Tissue Pathology	Not Performed	Negative	Positive	Not Performed	Negative	Positive	Not Performed	Negative	Positive
Fungi specified	216	6	16	218	16	3	210	10	20
Fungi unspecified	39	3	5	40	3	3	35	8	4
Rate of positive culture from paraphernalia	21/30 (70%)			6/25 (24%)			24/42 (57%)