A pioneering study led by University of Saskatchewan (USask) veterinary ophthalmologist Dr. Marina Leis (DVM, DACVO) shows that bacterial communities vary on different parts of the eye surface—a finding that significantly alters understanding of the mechanisms of eye disease and can lead to developing new treatments.
“We are excited to share our findings, which provide a paradigm shift within the field,” said veterinary microbiologist Dr. Matheus Costa (DVM, PhD), a member of the Leis research team that published a paper recently (Feb. 19) in the peer-reviewed scientific journal PLOS One.[…]
“The way we’ve always understood the ocular surface was that it contained a single bacterial population. Now, we learned different portions of the surface seem to have different bacteria that predominate, which has implications for disease mechanisms of multiple types of ocular surface conditions,” Costa said.
“As ophthalmologists we work under the assumption that the cornea is largely devoid of bacteria, or at least clinically relevant players. What we found puts this view into question,” Leis said.
EYE SEE…!!!
Makes sense though… Like the world-shaking discoveries of germs in the stomach and lungs, I reckon greeblies are EVERYWHERE…!
I see what you did there
I recently claimed three trillion dependants on my tax return. And that is just the dependants in my gut! I filed too late to include the eye ones. Damn!
The medical field especially seems vulnerable to the “everybody knows that…” what simple experiments routinely contradict.