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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 14.
Published in final edited form as: Cornea. 2009 Sep;28(8):918–926. doi: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3181a81835

Table 1.

List of strains tested in this study

Species Isolate Source
P. aeruginosa ATCC 9027 ATCC (from outer ear infection)*
MRL8620 CMM*
S. marcescens ATCC 13880 ATCC (from pond water)
MRL9195 CMM
056SM Contact lenses of a patient with contact lens acute red eye (CLARE) in the Longitudinal Analysis of Silicone Hydrogel (LASH) contact lens study§
094SM Contact lenses of a patient with infiltrative keratitis the Longitudinal Analysis of Silicone Hydrogel (LASH) contact lens study§
S. aureus ATCC 6538 ATCC (from a human lesion)
ATCC 43300 ATCC (clinical isolate)
094SA Contact lenses of a patient with infiltrative keratitis the Longitudinal Analysis of Silicone Hydrogel (LASH) contact lens study§
*

ATCC – American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, MD; CMM – Center for Medical Mycology (CMM), University Hospitals Case Medical Center. Source for ATCC isolates are based on the description provided at the ATCC website (http://www.atcc.org).

§

The LASH study (performed by LSF at University Hospitals Case Medical Center) is an ongoing prospective cohort study of 208 users of lotrafilcon A lenses worn continuously for up to 30 days of wear.