Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases · 2011 · 34 citations · 3 references
MedicineInfectious DiseasesOphthalmologyMedical MicrobiologyOcular DiseasePediatric OphthalmologyAllergic ConjunctivitisConjunctival InfectionsConjunctival PathologyInfectious Eye DiseasePediatric Ocular InfectionsViral Eye InfectionsAcute ConjunctivitisAllergic KeratoconjunctivitisConjunctival SwellingConjunctivitis EpidemiologyEpidemic KeratoconjunctivitisOphthalmologic FindingsOphthalmologic ManifestationsViral Ocular Infections
Human adenovirus type 54 (HAdV-54) is a novel type of adenovirus (1) that has so far been detected only in Japan, and causes epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) (1-3). HAdV-54 was identified as the HAdV-8 variant strain before 2008, because antibodies to HAdV-54 showed cross-reactivity with those to HAdV-8 in a neutralization test (NT) (1,3). In this report, we describe an outbreak of HAdV-54 conjunctivitis in a nursery school in Japan in 2008.
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