An epidemic of viral acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis in Delhi in 1994

Indian Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-21

  Satpathy, Gita ^a   Mohanty, Sujata ^a   Nayak, Niranjan ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Bacterial culture; Conjunctival swabs; Coxackie Virus A 24; Entero virus 70; Haemorrhagic conjunctivitis; Hep 2 cells; Immunofluorescence assay

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA; CORNEA; COXSACKIE VIRUS INFECTION; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTION; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HEMORRHAGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; INDIA; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; VIROLOGY;

ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC; CORNEA; COXSACKIEVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 0030093024     PISSN: 03014738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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