Ten years' surveillance of viral conjunctivitis in Sapporo, Japan

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-38

  Saitoh Inagawa, Waka ^a   Aoki, Koki ^b   Uchio, Eiichi ^a   Itoh, Norihiko ^a   Ohno, Shigeaki ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Aoki Eye Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ENTEROVIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEROTYPE; VIRAL CONJUNCTIVITIS;

ADENOVIRUS INFECTIONS, HUMAN; ADENOVIRUSES, HUMAN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLAMYDIA INFECTIONS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONJUNCTIVITIS, BACTERIAL; CONJUNCTIVITIS, VIRAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, VIRAL; ENTEROVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS;

EID: 0032974337     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050191     Document Type: Article

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