An outbreak of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis in a regional ophthalmology clinic in New South Wales

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1197-1206

  Viney, K A ^a   Kehoe, P J ^a   Doyle, B ^a   Sheppeard, V ^a   Roberts Witteveen, A R ^b   Semirli, H ^c,d   Mcphie, K A ^e   Dwyer, D E ^e   Mcanulty, J M ^a  

^a New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c ROYAL VICTORIAN EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists   (Australia)

^e WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADENOVIRUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE FINDING; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; ORTHOPTICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TONOMETRY; VIRAL CONTAMINATION; VIRUS ISOLATION;

ADENOVIRUS INFECTIONS, HUMAN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; OFFICE VISITS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 48249147814     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807009843     Document Type: Article

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