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Case Reports
. 1980 Jul;64(7):489-93.
doi: 10.1136/bjo.64.7.489.

An outbreak of adenovirus type 4 conjunctivitis

A B Tullo, P G Higgins
Case Reports

An outbreak of adenovirus type 4 conjunctivitis

A B Tullo et al. Br J Ophthalmol. 1980 Jul.

Abstract

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.

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