Outbreak of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis in French Guina and West Indies caused by coxsackievirus A24 variant: Phylogenetic analysis reveals Asian import

Journal of Medical Virology

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 559-565

  Dussart, Philippe ^a   Cartet, Gaëlle ^b   Huguet, Pierre ^c   Lévêque, Nicolas ^b   Hajjar, Christian ^d   Morvan, Jacques ^a   Vanderkerckhove, Julie ^a   Ferret, Karine ^e   Lina, Bruno ^b   Chomel, Jean Jacques ^b   Norder, Helene ^b,f  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LA GUYANE   (French Guiana)

^b Centre National de Reference des Staphylocoques   (France)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE CAYENNE   (French Guiana)

^d Centre hospitalier de la Basse Terre   (Guadeloupe)

^e Service de Sante des Armees   (French Guiana)

^f SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; EYE DROPS; EYE OINTMENT; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; PROTEIN 3C; PROTEIN VP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASIA; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COXSACKIE VIRUS A; COXSACKIE VIRUS A24; DRUG USE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; GENOTYPE; HEMORRHAGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MELNICK INTERSECTING POOL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERUM; VIRAL CONJUNCTIVITIS; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ASIA; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC; COXSACKIEVIRUS INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENTEROVIRUS C, HUMAN; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WEST INDIES;

EID: 20044381469     PISSN: 01466615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmv.20304     Document Type: Article

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