TY - JOUR T1 - Acanthamoeba keratitis occurring with daily disposable contact lens wear JF - British Journal of Ophthalmology JO - Br J Ophthalmol SP - 1088 LP - 1088 DO - 10.1136/bjo.83.9.1088a VL - 83 IS - 9 AU - S A WOODRUFF AU - J K G DART Y1 - 1999/09/01 UR - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/83/9/1088.5.abstract N2 - Editor,—Up to 92% of cases of acanthamoeba keratitis occur in contact lens users of all types.1Failure to disinfect soft contact lenses and the use of chlorine disinfection systems are major factors accounting for the increase in cases of acanthamoeba keratitis.2 It is thought that “daily disposable” contact lenses, which require no disinfection, will have a much lower risk for the development of all forms of infectious keratitis. We report a case of acanthamoeba keratitis occurring in a daily disposable contact lens wearer. We believe this is the first such reported case. CASE REPORT A healthy 21 year old woman, who had been wearing daily disposable contact lenses for 1 year, wore her lenses for 4 hours on 1 day and then stored the lenses in preserved saline solution overnight in a new contact lens case. She rewore the lenses for a further 3 hours the following day. She reports that … ER -