Face Masks and Bacterial Dispersion Toward the Periocular Area

Ophthalmology. 2021 Aug;128(8):1236-1238. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2021.01.007. Epub 2021 Jan 12.

¹ Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.
² University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin.
³ Department of Biomedical Engineering and McPherson Research Institute, Madison, Wisconsin.
⁴ Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison Wisconsin.
⁵ Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin. Electronic address: jschang4@wisc.edu.

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Keywords: Bacteria; Colony-forming unit; Dispersal; Endophthalmitis; Face mask; Intravitreal injection; Tape.

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