Acute hæmorrhagic conjunctivitis during an epidemic outbreak of adenovirus-type-4 infection

Clinical and aetiological study of adenoviral conjunctivitis, with special reference to adenovirus types 4 and 19 infections.

“…Adenoviruses 3 and 4 tended to prevail in 1979, and adenovirus 19 in 1980, but in a particular month or in a particular clinic no one type was solely isolated. Adenovirus 4 was first isolated in our current study, whereas one strain, adenovirus 19 The age distribution and the types of isolates from the patients is shown in Table 2, with the 20-39 age group being the most common. The rate of viral isolation by age group varied from 41% to 68%, with the 0-9 age group being the lowest.…”

New Genome Type of Adenovirus Serotype 4 Caused Nosocomial Infections Associated with Epidemic Conjunctivitis in Japan

“…AdV-4 is the only member of human AdV-E and often causes outbreaks of epidemic conjunctivitis (2) and respiratory infections (8,17). AdV-4 ocular infections were quite rare up to the 1960s, but in the latter half of the 1970s, AdV-4 caused worldwide outbreaks of epidemic conjunctivitis in, among other locations, Rome in 1974, Bristol in 1978, and Chicago in 1981 (12,14,27).…”

Enteroviral conjunctivitis and its neurological complications

“…The haemorrhages range from petechiae to an eechs~nosis which obliterates the whole of the white of the eye producing an alarming picture. It should be remembered however, that other infections of the eye, especially those with certain adenoviruses, are also capable of giving rise to conjunctival haemorrhages (44,57). Adenovirus type 11 infections have occurred along with those of enterovirus type 70 (3,54,73) leading to confusion when an attempt has been made to arrive at a precise virological diagnosis in any particular ease on clinical grounds alone.…”