A view to a kill? – Ambient bacterial load of frames and lenses of spectacles and evaluation of different cleaning methods

• Birgit Fritz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birgit Fritz, Anne Jenner

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Institute of Precision Medicine, Microbiology and Hygiene Group, Furtwangen University, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

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• Anne Jenner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Birgit Fritz, Anne Jenner

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Institute of Precision Medicine, Microbiology and Hygiene Group, Furtwangen University, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Aalen, Germany

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• Siegfried Wahl,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Aalen, Germany, Institute for Ophthalmic Research, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Christian Lappe,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Aalen, Germany

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• Achim Zehender,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH, Aalen, Germany

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• Christian Horn,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Singen, Germany

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• Frithjof Blessing,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Singen, Germany

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• Matthias Kohl,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Institute of Precision Medicine, Group for Statistics in Biology and Medicine, Furtwangen University, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

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• Focke Ziemssen,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Center for Ophthalmology, Eberhard-Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3873-0581

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• Markus Egert

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Markus.Egert@hs-furtwangen.de

  Affiliation Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Institute of Precision Medicine, Microbiology and Hygiene Group, Furtwangen University, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

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