NEUROLOGICAL MANIFESTATION OF ACUTE HAEMORRHAGIC CONJUNCTIVITIS DUE TO ENTEROVIRUS 70
โ Scribed by Jacob John, T.; Christopher, Saroja; Abraham, Jacob
- Book ID
- 123547475
- Publisher
- The Lancet
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 276 KB
- Volume
- 318
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0140-6736
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## Abstract Epidemics of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis caused by a variant of coxsackievirus A24 (CA24v) and enterovirus 70 (EV70) have occurred periodically in Singapore. A seroepidemiological survey conducted before the CA24v epidemic in 1985 and in the midst of the EV70 epidemic in 1983 show
Enterovirus 70 (EV-70) has caused at least two pandemics and several major epidemics of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis (AHC) in the past 18 years, with the largest number of cases occurring in the coastal areas of the tropics. The exact means of its spread are not known, but fomites and hands cont