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Epidemic spread of adenovirus type 4-associated acute respiratory disease between U.S. Army installations
K M McNeill1, F Ridgely Benton, S C Monteith
1Catawba Health District, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Lancaster, South Carolina 29721, USA. mcneilkm@lncstr60.dhec.state.us
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|July 25, 2000
Abstract:
A large outbreak of adenovirus type 4-associated acute respiratory disease (ARD) occurred at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in 1997. A laboratory-based ARD surveillance program was initiated at Fort Gordon, Georgia, where advanced individual training was heavily populated with Fort Jackson soldiers. Adenovirus type 4 was isolated from 50% of 147 trainees hospitalized with ARD. Most (88%) introduced cases were in trainees from Fort Jackson.