The change of etiological agents and clinical signs of epidemic viral conjunctivitis over an 18-year period in southern Taiwan

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 241, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 554-560

  Chang, Cheng Hsien ^a   Lin, Kuei Hsiang ^a   Huang, Wen Loong ^b   Wang, Huei Zu ^a   Chen, Chen Wu ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Life Eye Clinic   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COXSACKIE VIRUS A; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HEMORRHAGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; HUMAN; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TAIWAN; TROPICS; VIRAL CONJUNCTIVITIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADENOVIRUS INFECTIONS, HUMAN; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC; CONJUNCTIVITIS, VIRAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KERATITIS; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS, INFECTIOUS; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TAIWAN;

EID: 0042062226     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-003-0680-2     Document Type: Article

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