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Phylogenetic and molecular characterization of coxsackievirus A24 variant isolates from a 2010 acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis outbreak in Guangdong, China.
Virology journal - 15 Feb 2012
De Wu, Huanying Zheng, Hui Li, Corina Monagin, Xue Guo, Leng Liu, Hanri Zeng, Ling Fang, Yanling Mo, Huiqiong Zhou, Huan Zhang, Jing Kou, Caiyun Long, Yoshida Hiromu, Changwen Ke
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis is a common disease in China. As a notifiable disease, cases are registered by ophthalmologists on the AHC surveillance system. An AHC outbreak caused by CA24v was observed in Guangdong Province in 2007 by the National Disease Supervision Information Management System. Three years later, a larger outbreak occurred in Guangdong during the August-October period (2010)....
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