Outbreak of Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis Caused by Human Adenovirus Type 56, China, 2012

HAdV-56 is a new recombinant type isolated from epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) patients and has been sporadically isolated in Japan several times. Here, an outbreak of EKC in the city of Dalian, China involving a large number of workers in two factories was reported; this was the first outbreak...

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Autores principales: Huang, Guohong, Yao, Wenqing, Yu, Wei, Mao, Lingling, Sun, Haibo, Yao, Wei, Tian, Jiang, Wang, Ling, Bo, Zhijian, Zhu, Zhen, Zhang, Yan, Zhao, Zhuo, Xu, Wenbo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4208770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25343525
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110781
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Sumario:HAdV-56 is a new recombinant type isolated from epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) patients and has been sporadically isolated in Japan several times. Here, an outbreak of EKC in the city of Dalian, China involving a large number of workers in two factories was reported; this was the first outbreak of EKC associated with HAdV-56 worldwide.

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