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Ilka Engelmann, Ijad Madisch, Heidi Pommer, Albert Heim, An Outbreak of Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis Caused by a New Intermediate Adenovirus 22/H8 Identified by Molecular Typing, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 43, Issue 7, 1 October 2006, Pages e64–e66, https://doi.org/10.1086/507533
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Abstract
In a 4-week period, 12 patients contracted adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis. Eight of these patients had visited the same ophthalmologist's practice before onset of symptoms. Adenovirus was detected in swab specimens obtained from 9 patients. Sequence-based typing of 2 isolates revealed type 22/H8. This is, to our knowledge, the first report of a keratoconjunctivitis outbreak caused by an intermediate adenovirus type 22/H8.
© 2006 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America
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