Outbreak of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis caused by human adenovirus type 56, China, 2012.

ABSTRACT: HAdV-56 is a new recombinant type isolated from epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) patients and has been sporadically isolated in Japan several times. Here, an outbreak of EKC in the city of Dalian, China involving a large number of workers in two factories was reported; this was the first outbreak of EKC associated with HAdV-56 worldwide.

SUBMITTER: Huang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4208770 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature