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Table 1 List of protozoa identified in 16 contact lens solution specimens, along with co-cultured bacteria and fungi

From: Repertoire of free-living protozoa in contact lens solutions

Patient

CL case

Protozoa

Co-cultured bacteria

Co-cultured fungi

Patient 1

1

Acanthamoeba sp.

Serratia liquefaciens

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

None

Patient 2

2

Acanthamoeba sp.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Stenotrophomonas maltophila

Chryseobacterium dacguense

Citrobacter freundi

Sacrocadium kiliense

Patient 3

3

Acanthamoeba sp.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Chryseobacterium gleum

Delftia acidovorans

None

Patient 4

4

Acanthamoeba sp.

Pseudomonas fluorescens

Mycobacterium chimaera

Stenotrophomonas maltophila

None

Patient 5

5

Acanthamoeba sp.

None

None

Patient 6

6-1

Acanthamoeba sp.

None

None

6-2

Acanthamoeba sp.

None

None

Patient 7

7

Acanthamoeba sp.

None

Candida guilliermondii

Fusarium oxyporum

Patient 8

8

Acanthamoeba sp.

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Raoultella ornithinolytica

Sphingobacterium multivorium

Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Klebsiella terrigena

Pseudomonas hibiscicola

Shewanella putrefaciens

Sphingobacterium siyangense

None

Patient 9

9-1

Acanthamoeba sp.

None

None

9-2

Acanthamoeba sp.

None

None

Patient 10

10

Acanthamoeba sp.

Klebsiella pneumonia

Enterobacter cloacae

Stenotrophomonas maltophila

Candida parapsilosis

Candida lipolytica

Patient 11

11-1

Acanthamoeba sp.

Sphingobacterium multivorum

Aeromonas veronii

Aeromonas caviae

Raoutella ornitolytica

Klebsiella pneumoniae

None

11-2

Acanthamoeba sp.

Pseudochrobactrum asaccharolyticum

Aeromonas caviae

Wausteriella falsenii

None

Patient 12

12

Cercozoa sp.

Klebsiella oxytoca

Stenotrophomonas maltophila

Alcaligenes xylosidans

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Candida colliculosa

Patient 13

13

Vermamoeba sp.

Enterobacter cloacae,

Stenotrophomonas maltophila

Xanthobacter flavus

Pseudomona aerouginosa

Mycobacterium chelonae

None

Patient 14

14

Colpoda steini

None

None

Patient 15

15

Protostelium sp.

Alcaligenes xylosoxidans

Stenotrophomonas maltophila

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Sphingomonas multivorum

Aeromonas culicicola

Hicrobacterium flavum

Chryseobacterium hominis

Microbacterium testaceum

None

Patient 16

16-1

Acanthamoeba sp.

Microbacterium oxydans

Penicillium chrysogenum, Candida parapsilosis

Fusarium oxysporum

16-2

Acanthamoeba sp.

None

None