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The agency has identified 68 patients in 16 states with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a type of bacterium resistant to most antibiotics. Eight patients have lost vision in at least one of their eyes.
The eye drops were contaminated with a drug-resistant form of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a particularly aggressive bacterium, according to the CDC. A visit by US health inspectors to the factory ...
outbreak in eye drops. The 2022–2023 United States Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak began in May 2022, with the infection of several patients in California. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) became aware of a strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in artificial tears manufactured by EzriCare and Delsam Pharma in January 2023.
Two specific eye drop products have been expressly linked to the current Pseudomonas aeruginosa outbreak. But consumers may be confused about three other recalled eye-care products that officials ...
The bacteria linked to recalled eyedrops causing infection and blindness had never been seen in the U.S. until 2022, the CDC says Almost 70 infections have been linked to the recalled eyedrops in ...
[table-of-contents] stripped. It’s been a bad year for eye drops. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued yet another eye drop recall—this time focusing on 27 different over-the ...
February 5, 2023 at 9:59 AM. A eye drops recall pulling two brands of artificial tears are the latest development in what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls an outbreak of ...
Artificial tears. A subset of various brands of artificial tears displayed in a store. Specialty. ophthalmology. [ edit on Wikidata] Artificial tears are lubricating eye drops used to relieve dryness and irritation of the ocular surface. [1] Dry eye syndrome ( keratoconjunctivitis sicca) is a common ocular surface disorder and is characterized ...