Jie Li|Xiaoyan Lu|Baoming Jiang|Yiwei Du|Yang? Yang|Qian Huang|Baiwei Liu|Changying Lin|Lei Jia|Lijuan Chen|Quanyi Wang
Adenovirus-associated acute conjunctivitis in Beijing, China, 2011–2013
Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control|Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control|Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control|Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control|Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control|Beijing Center for Disease Prevention and Control
human adenovirus hadvassociated acute conjunctivitis common infectious disease causes significant morbidity among residents beijing china however little known epidemiology type distribution acute adenoviral conjunctivitis beijing acute conjunctivitis surveillance conducted 18 hospitals beijing july october 20112013 hadvs detected pcr eye swab types determined partial hexon fiber gene sequencing risk factors associated adenoviral conjunctivitis analyzed 876 conjunctivitis cases 349 398 hadv positive hadv detection common conjunctivitis patients aged 1840 years patients contact history conjunctivitis case patients specimen collected days 46 post symptom onset patients worked food service catering attendants fifteen types identified among adenoviral conjunctivitis cases five hadv types hadv4 37 53 64 8 accounted 811 adenoviral conjunctivitis cases hadv37 4 53 common types associated adenoviral conjunctivitis 2011 2012 2013 respectively multiple hadv types associated acute conjunctivitis beijing predominant types associated adenoviral conjunctivitis circulating beijing varied year year