“…Although the proportion of eyes with bacteria was lower for those with SCLs than fellow eyes (Table 1), the difference between the two groups was not significant. Other investigators have reported slightly higher rates of positive cultures from eyes with SCLs (Higaki et al 1993) or from fellow eyes (Tomii et al 1984), or equal rates from both eyes (Elander et al 1992;Hayasaka et al 1992). In these other studies, as in ours, however, none of the differences were statistically significant.…”