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This image depicted two sides of a Petri dish (reverse LT, front Rt), which had been inoculated with a specimen extracted from an opened bottle of contact lens solution, obtained from a New Jersey Fusarium keratitis patient, and had subsequently grown a filamentous colony of Fusarium oxysporum fungal organisms. The type of growth medium was Sabouraud Dextrose agar (SAB). The laboratory received cultures which came from two sources: Fusarium spp. isolated from the eyes of patients with fungal keratitis, and cultures from contact lenses, cases and/or lens solution. The laboratory received cultures, which came from two sources, Fusarium spp. isolated from the eyes of patients with fungal keratitis, and cultures from contact lenses, cases and/or lens solution. The details of the study are being publish in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Mark Lindsley, Sc.D. D(ABMM), Lynette Benjamin, Shirley McClinton
Creation Date: 2006
Photo Credit: James Gathany
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