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. 2006 Mar;12(3):495-7.
doi: 10.3201/eid1203.051173.

Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis and coxsackievirus A24v, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2004

Fernando N Tavares  1 , Eliane V Costa, Silas S Oliveira, Cecilia C A Nicolai, Meri Baran, Edson E da Silva
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Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis and coxsackievirus A24v, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2004

Fernando N Tavares et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Mar.

Abstract

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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Phylogenetic analysis of CA24 strains isolated during the acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis outbreaks in Rio de Janeiro in 2003 and 2004. Sequences of CA24 isolated from previous outbreaks in Korea in 2002 (Seoul/17/2002, Seoul/19/2002, and KOR-021/2002, GenBank accession nos. AY296249, AY296251, and AF545847, respectively), in French Guiana in 2003 (192-921-2003 and 196-924-2003, accession nos. AY876178 and AY876181, respectively), and in Singapore in 1970 (EH24/70, accession no. D90457) are included for comparison.
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