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Volume 28, Number 11—November 2022
Research

Fungal Endophthalmitis Outbreak after Cataract Surgery, South Korea, 2020

Soo Jeong Yoon1, Soo Hyun Kim1, Hyun Jung Bahk, Yeong Seo Ahn, Ji Joo Lee, Hye Jin Kim, Ha Jin Lim, Min Ji Choi, Jong Hee Shin, and Yeon-Kyeng LeeComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, Cheongju, South Korea (S.J. Yoon, H.J. Bahk, Y.S. Ahn, J.J. Lee, H.J. Kim, Y.-K. Lee); Chonnam National University Medical School, Hwasun, South Korea (S.H. Kim, H.J. Lim, M.J. Choi, J.H. Shin)

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Table 3

Relative risk for fungal endophthalmitis after cataract surgery using ophthalmic viscoelastic device from company A, South Korea, 2020*

Brand of OVD
 No. cases†
 No. surgeries
 Incidence risk per 100,000 population
 Risk ratio (95% CI)
Company A OVD 152 49,193 309.0 86.0 (27.4–269.7)
Other OVDs, referent 3 83,554 3.6

*OVD, ophthalmic viscoelastic device. †Among 156 total cases; excludes 1 case that used an OVD without sufficient database information.

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1These first authors contributed equally to this work.

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