A Nosocomial Outbreak of Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis due to Adenovirus Type 37
- 1 September 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Microbiology and Immunology
- Vol. 34 (9) , 749-754
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1348-0421.1990.tb01052.x
Abstract
An outbreak of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis occurred at the department of ophthalmology of a hospital in Yokohama, involving 14 inpatients, 12 outpatients, and 2 doctors. Adenovirus type 37 (Ad-37) was isolated from the conjunctival swab in 12 of 18 cases. In neutralization tests, the isolates showed some cross-reaction with adenovirus type 19 (Ad-19). The Ad-37 isolates were indistinguishable from each other and from the prototype Ad-37, but distinct from the prototype Ad-19 in the restriction endonuclease analysis of viral DNA.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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