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. 1981 Feb;86(1):95–103. doi: 10.1017/s0022172400068789

Adenovirus eye infections in an Australian city, 1972-9.

L Irving, M Kennett, F Lewis, C Birch, A Donaldson
PMCID: PMC2134064  PMID: 6257780

Abstract

A number of adenovirus serotypes have been associated with both sporadic cases and outbreaks of conjunctivitis and pharyngoconjunctival fever but only adenovirus type 8 and adenovirus type 19 have been responsible for wide-spread epidemic kerato-conjunctivitis. In Melbourne, Australia, in the past eight years these two serotypes have been prevalent, resulting in an outbreak of adenovirus type 8 kerato-conjunctivitis in 1976-7 followed by adenovirus type 19 kerato-conjunctivitis in 1978-9. During these two periods of peak incidence, 53 cases of adenovirus type 8 and 43 cases of adenovirus type 19 kerato-conjunctivitis were confirmed by isolation.

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