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ALSON E. BRALEY, M.D.

Arch Ophthal. 1945;33(1):47-55.

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Scattered epidemics of acute conjunctivitis, characteristically complicated by punctate corneal lesions, have occurred in the United States during the past few years. Since the disease first reached epidemic proportions in the shipyards on the Pacific Coast, it came to be called "shipyard conjunctivitis," or "California conjunctivitis." That it may have been present in California before it became epidemic is suggested by the fact that in 1938 Hobson¹ found 16 cases of a similar disease in a veterans' hospital at San Fernando, Calif. Rieke² estimated that 600 cases occurred in one shipyard in Oregon in 1941, and de Roetth,³ at the same time, called the disease "epidemic keratoconjunctivitis" and drew attention to its association with superficial punctate keratitis. Hogan and Crawford⁴ summarized the disease in a report of 125 cases from the San Francisco Bay region. It is interesting to note that in the epidemics on the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Institute of Ophthalmology, Presbyterian Hospital.

Footnotes
The experimental work was supported in part by the Knapp Memorial Fund.

During the early part of this study convalescent serum was drawn and prepared under the supervision of Dr. J. E. Perkins and Dr. R. F. Korns, of the New York State Department of Health. The major portion of the convalescent plasma was prepared by the blood bank of the Presbyterian Hospital, under the supervision of Dr. John Scudder. Dr. Murray Sanders and Mrs. Rose Alexander tested all specimens, donors and recipients for the presence of antibodies.

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