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CHIE TANAKA, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1958;59(1):49-54.

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Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) is an eye disease of well-defined characteristics. The viral nature of this condition had been suspected for a long time from epidemiological studies and from inoculation experiments. Claims of possible isolation of causative viruses have been made by several investigators, but until recently there has been little agreement between the results obtained in different laboratories, and the etiological importance of the reported agents has not been fully established.¹

In 1955, Jawetz et al.² isolated a new adenovirus, Type 8, from a case of EKC. In May, 1956, Mitsui³ reported the subsequent isolation of a strain of adenovirus Type 8 from a case of EKC in Kumamoto, Japan. Chang⁴ isolated a strain of Type 8, as well as several other adenovirus types, from cases of conjunctivitis in children in Saudi Arabia. Subsequently, Mitsui⁵ isolated five strains of Type 8 virus from an epidemic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Bethesda, Md.

From the Ophthalmology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Footnotes
Received for publication May 24, 1957.

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