PLoS ONE (Jan 2014)
Outbreak of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis caused by human adenovirus type 56, China, 2012.
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.