High temperatures decrease antifungal properties of contact solution

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 13:56 in Health & Medicine

Exposure to prolonged temperature elevation reduces antifungal activity of a contact lens solution that was implicated in the epidemic of the eye infection Fusarium keratitis that occurred between 2004 and 2006, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

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