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

Fernando N Tavares; Eliane V Costa; Silas S Oliveira; Cecilia C A Nicolai; Meri Baran; Edson E da Silva

doi:10.3201/eid1203.051173

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

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

Authors

Fernando N Tavares¹, Eliane V Costa, Silas S Oliveira, Cecilia C A Nicolai, Meri Baran, Edson E da Silva

Affiliation

¹ Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Brazil / epidemiology
Conjunctivitis, Acute Hemorrhagic / epidemiology*
Conjunctivitis, Acute Hemorrhagic / virology*
Disease Outbreaks
Enterovirus C, Human / genetics
Enterovirus C, Human / isolation & purification*
Humans
Phylogeny