Outbreak of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis caused by adenovirus type 54 in a nursery school in Kobe City, Japan in 2008

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 353-354

  Akiyoshi, Kyoko ^a   Suga, Tomoko ^a   Fukui, Kiyoka ^b   Taniguchi, Kiyosu ^c   Okabe, Nobuhiko ^c   Fujimoto, Tsuguto ^c  

^a KOBE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Fukui Clinic   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS TYPE 54; JAPAN; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS EPIDEMICA; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NURSERY SCHOOL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADENOVIRUS INFECTIONS, HUMAN; ADENOVIRUSES, HUMAN; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORNEAL OPACITY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INCIDENCE; INFANT; JAPAN; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; MALE; SCHOOLS, NURSERY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960994125     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: 18842836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Ishiko, H., Shimada, Y., Konno, T., et al. (2008): Novel human adenovirus causing nosocomial epidemic keratoconjunctivitis. J. Clin. Microbiol., 46, 2002-2008.
2. Ishiko, H. and Aoki, K. (2009): Spread of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis due to a novel serotype of human adenovirus in Japan. J. Clin. Microbiol., 47, 2678-2679.