Outbreak of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis caused by human adenovirus type 56, China, 2012
Guohong Huang1, Wenqing Yao2, Wei Yu2
1National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People's Republic of China; Clinical laboratory, People's Hospital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China.
Plos One
|October 25, 2014
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.
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