PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - A B Tullo
AU  - P G Higgins
TI  - An outbreak of adenovirus type 4 conjunctivitis.
AID  - 10.1136/bjo.64.7.489
DP  - 1980 Jul 01
TA  - British Journal of Ophthalmology
PG  - 489--493
VI  - 64
IP  - 7
4099  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/64/7/489.short
4100  - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/64/7/489.full
SO  - Br J Ophthalmol1980 Jul 01; 64
AB  - An unusually large outbreak of conjunctivitis caused by adenovirus type 4 involved 113 proved cases during a 7-month period. Though the disease was less severe than is commonly seen in epidemic keratoconjunctivitis caused by other serotypes, the cornea was affected in 23% of cases and symptoms persisted for at least 5 weeks in 6 patients. A concurrent increase in nonocular adenovirus type 4 infections in the Bristol area was not observed. Nine of the cases could have arisen as a result of hospital cross-infection.