Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2006)

Acute Hemorrhagic Conjunctivitis and Coxsackievirus A24v, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2004

  • Fernando N. Tavares,
  • Eliane V. Costa,
  • Silas S. Oliveira,
  • Cecilia C.A. Nicolai,
  • Meri Baran,
  • Edson E. da Silva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1203.051173
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 3
pp. 495 – 497

Abstract

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An outbreak of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) occurred in Rio de Janeiro in 2004. Coxsackievirus A24v (CA24v) was identified as the etiologic agent, and partial sequences from the VP1 gene show that the isolates are closely related to CA24v viruses that previously caused AHC epidemics in South Korea and French Guiana.

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