Isolation of a virus responsible for an outbreak of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis in Morocco

1 February 1974

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection

Vol. 72 (2) , 181-183
https://doi.org/10.1017/s002217240002338x

Abstract

SUMMARY An epidemic of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis occurred in Morocco in 1970–1. It was caused by an enterovirus which appeared to be a new antigenic type similar to a virus isolated in South East Asia during the same period.

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