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| ID | Type | Description | Link |
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| 1R01EY022038-01A1 | U.S. NIH Grant/Contract | View source |
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| National Institutes of Health (NIH) | NIH |
| National Eye Institute (NEI) | NIH |
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The purpose of this study is to collect samples from the surface of eyelids to try to grow and identify bacteria or fungus that might be present, and to try to understand why people have dry eye symptoms.
"Dry eye" is a very common eye condition, which may or may not be caused by specific microorganisms that live on the surface of the eye. In this study, a combination of tissue culture and molecular biology techniques will be used to identify every microbe (bacteria, fungus, or virus) on the surface of eyes of people with dry eye syndrome, as well as a 'control' group of people who don't have dry eye disease.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Dry eye group | People with dry eye symptoms | ||
| Non-dry eye group | People with no dry eye symptoms |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| To catalog the bacteria and other micro-organisms that are naturally found on the eye surface. | 6 months |
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Adult patients from the investigators' practices at the University of Washington Eye Institute
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Russell N VanGelder, MD, PhD | UW Medicine Eye Institute | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| UW Medicine Eye Institute | Seattle | Washington | 98104 | United States |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 27699405 | Derived | Doan T, Akileswaran L, Andersen D, Johnson B, Ko N, Shrestha A, Shestopalov V, Lee CS, Lee AY, Van Gelder RN. Paucibacterial Microbiome and Resident DNA Virome of the Healthy Conjunctiva. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2016 Oct 1;57(13):5116-5126. doi: 10.1167/iovs.16-19803. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D015352 | Dry Eye Syndromes |
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| D007766 | Lacrimal Apparatus Diseases |
| D005128 | Eye Diseases |
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Swab or scrapings of the cornea