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Outbreak of adenovirus type 4 conjunctivitis in South Australia
Author(s) -
Schepetiuk Sonia K.,
Norton Robert,
Kok Tuckweng,
Irving Louise G.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.1890410411
Subject(s) - outbreak , virology , mastadenovirus , keratitis , adenoviridae , medicine , epidemiology , biology , dermatology , pathology , genetics , recombinant dna , gene
An outbreak of adenovirus type 4 conjunctivitis occurred in South Australia between April and November 1992. Eye swabs were submitted by general practitioners and ophthalmologists who had seen patients with clinical conjunctivitis or keratitis. Apart from interfamilial spread, there were no other common epidemiological factors. Adenovirus was isolated from the eye swabs of 38 patients. Isolates were typed by neutralisation tests and restriction endonuclease cleavage patterns and found to be adenovirus type 4. This report serves to illustrate an infrequent cause of epidemic conjunctivitis, namely adenovirus type 4. There was no demonstrable focus of the outbreak.