A molecular investigative approach to an outbreak of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis in Egypt, October 2010

Virology Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ayoub, Ehab A ^a   Shafik, Caroline F ^a   Gaynor, Anne M ^a   Mohareb, Emad W ^a   Amin, Magdy A ^b   Yassin, Aymen S ^b   El Refaey, Samir ^c   Genedy, Mohamed ^c   Kandeel, Amr ^c  

^a US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3 Egypt   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis; Coxsackievirus A24 variant; Egypt; Outbreak; Phylogenetic analysis

Indexed keywords

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS; ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA; COXSACKIE VIRUS A; COXSACKIE VIRUS A24; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS; LABORATORY TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN;

ADENOVIRUSES, HUMAN; CONJUNCTIVITIS, ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EGYPT; ENTEROVIRUS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR TYPING; PHYLOGENY;

COXSACKIEVIRUS; ENTEROVIRUS; HUMAN ADENOVIRUS;

EID: 84875285487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1743422X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-422X-10-96     Document Type: Article

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