Outbreak of Febrile Pharyngitis and Conjunctivitis Associated with Type 3 Adenoidal-Pharyngeal-Conjunctival Virus Infection

Abstract

ON February 11, 1954, a two-year-old girl with acute febrile rhinitis, pharyngitis and conjunctivitis was admitted to the Infectious and Parasitic Disease Service of the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, as a subject in the clinical and etiologic study of acute respiratory illnesses. During her admission examination she coughed in the face of the attending pediatrician, in whom, six days later, mild rhinitis, pharyngitis and unilateral conjunctivitis developed. Eight days after the admission of this child, the pediatric nurse who attended her and a seven-year-old girl who occupied the other bed in her hospital room also manifested . . .