Outbreak of follicular conjunctivitis caused by adenovirus in a geriatric centre;Brote de conjuntivitis folicular por adenovirus en un centro gerontológico

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 690-693

  Artieda, Juncal ^a   Montes, Milagrosa ^b   Vicente, Diego ^b   Martínez, Consuelo ^c   Pieiro, Luis ^b   Mendiola, Josune ^b  

^a Departamento de Salud Del Gobierno Vasco   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DONOSTIA   (Spain)

^c Fundacin Zorroaga   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adenovirus; Conjunctivitis; Nosocomial transmission; Outbreak

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN E1; HEXON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ADENOVIRUS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CLEANING; CONJUNCTIVAL BIOPSY; CONJUNCTIVITIS; DISEASE DURATION; DISINFECTION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR CONJUNCTIVITIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GERIATRICS; HAND WASHING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESIDENT; SANITATION; SEROTYPE; SYMPTOM; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADENOVIRUS E1 PROTEINS; ADENOVIRUS INFECTIONS, HUMAN; ADENOVIRUSES, HUMAN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAPSID PROTEINS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONJUNCTIVITIS, VIRAL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; GENES, VIRAL; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPING; SPAIN; UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS;

EID: 78649647802     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: 15781852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimc.2010.04.008     Document Type: Article

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