Khor, Wei-Boon
Periayah, Mercy Halleluyah
Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani
Prajna, Venkatesh
Garg, Prashant
Sharma, Namrata
Young, Alvin
Nishida, Kohji
Kinoshita, Shigeru
Tan, Ai Ling
Tan, Donald Tiang-Hwee
Article History
Received: 8 April 2025
Accepted: 28 June 2025
First Online: 22 July 2025
Declarations
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: Wei-Boon Khor has received honorarium by Santen Pharmaceuticals for presentations; and received support by the Asia Cornea Society for meetings. Tan Ai Ling has received honorarium for lectures from the Singapore Association of Pharmaceutical Industries. Donald TH Tan is a co-inventor of the EndoGlide, and have financial interests in the device (AngioTech, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA/Network Medical Products, North Yorkshire, UK). The following authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.: Mercy Halleluyah Periayah, Lakshminarayanan Rajamani, Venkatesh Prajna, Prashant Garg, Namrata Sharma, Alvin Young, Kohji Nishida, Shigeru Kinoshita.
: This study adhered to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Ethics review was waived for this study by the SingHealth Institutional Review Board as only bacterial isolates with no patient identifiers were provided for this laboratory study.