Tavares Fernando N, Costa Eliane V, Oliveira Silas S, Nicolai Cecilia C A, Baran Meri, da Silva Edson E
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Mar;12(3):495-7. doi: 10.3201/eid1203.051173.
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.
2004年,里约热内卢爆发了急性出血性结膜炎(AHC)。柯萨奇病毒A24变种(CA24v)被确定为病原体,VP1基因的部分序列显示,分离株与先前在韩国和法属圭亚那引发AHC疫情的CA24v病毒密切相关。