Outbreak of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis caused by human adenovirus type 56, China, 2012.

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...

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Main Authors: Guohong Huang, Wenqing Yao, Wei Yu, Lingling Mao, Haibo Sun, Wei Yao, Jiang Tian, Ling Wang, Zhijian Bo, Zhen Zhu, Yan Zhang, Zhuo Zhao, Wenbo Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110781