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Molecular epidemiology of human adenoviruses d associated with epidemic keratoconjunctivitis in Osaka, Japan, 2001-2010.
Japanese journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2013
Hiroi Satoshi, Morikawa Saeko, Takahashi Kazuo, Komano Jun, Kase Tetsuo
Abstract excerpt
Isolation of novel types of human adenovirus D (HAdV-53, -54, and -56) from keratoconjunctivitis patients has been reported since 2008. We examined the molecular epidemiology of HAdV-D strains using 39 field isolates collected from epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) patients from 2001 to 2010 in the province of Osaka, Japan. The molecular types were analyzed by sequencing partial penton base gene, loop 1 in the...
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