PLoS ONE (Jan 2014)

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

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110781
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 10
p. e110781

Abstract

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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.