ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020
Eye-Catching Microbes-Polyphasic Analysis of the Microbiota on Microscope Oculars Verifies Their Role as Fomites.
Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Investigation of eye flora in cats infected with Herpesvirus and Calicivirus.Iranian journal of microbiology · 2024Article
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- Comprehensive Compositional Analysis of the Slit Lamp Bacteriota.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Microscopes are used in virtually every biological and medical laboratory. Previous cultivation-based studies have suggested that direct contact with microscope eyepieces increases the risk of eye infections. To obtain a deeper insight into the microbiota on oculars, we analysed 10 recently used university microscopes. Their left oculars were used for a cultivation-based approach, while the right oculars served for massive gene sequencing. After cleaning with isopropyl alcohol, the oculars were re-sampled and analysed again. All oculars were found to be contaminated with bacteria, with a maximum load of 1.7 × 10
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