Antimicrobial treatment

To date my only experience with any form of anti-microbial treatment was a pair of trekking underpants similar to these http://www.rohan.co.uk/Product/Detail/MensBaseLayers_02785 However, casting those silver-treated smalls aside, I'm much more excited about the possibilities of antimicrobial contact lens treatments and contact lens cases, some news of which follows. Researchers at the Brien Holden Vision Institute and University of New South Wales in Australia have been awarded a $300,000 Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant to develop a novel antimicrobial material to coat contact lens cases in an attempt to prevent microbial keratitis. They hope to be able to eliminate a key risk factor for the condition by developing new lens cases and I for one would be prepared to test drive one in the future. There's definitely research going on in the UK into antimicrobial CL and case treatments and I'll hopefully be able to report on that in the not too distant future.