Effectiveness of a decontamination method for donor corneas.
Open Access
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in British Journal of Ophthalmology
- Vol. 72 (3), 225-227
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.72.3.225
Abstract
A retrospective study was made of the effectiveness of an eye bank decontamination and storage method. A comparison was made between microbial cultures taken from the limbus at enucleation and from scleral remnants recovered after surgery. Organisms were isolated from the limbus of 73% of donor eyes and from 4% of remnants. Standard eye bank procedures were found to eradicate gut and skin organisms, including candida, from donor tissue.Keywords
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