Metselaar D, Awan A M, Ensering H L
Trop Geogr Med. 1976 Jun;28(2):131-6.
The pandemic of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis that started in Ghana in 1969 and spread to many countries in Africa, Asia and Europe reached Kenya in April 1971. From one patient virus was isolated. This was possibly the first strain ever isolated of Enterovirus 70. Identification took time and was finished long after the publication of isolation of the new virus in Japan. Cross neutralization tests with the virus from Japan showed close relationship between the two. During a second epidemic in Kenya in 1974 many more strains of the virus were isolated. The history of isolation and identification and the clinical picture of the disease as seen in Kenya are described.
1969年始于加纳并蔓延至非洲、亚洲和欧洲许多国家的急性出血性结膜炎大流行于1971年4月抵达肯尼亚。从一名患者身上分离出了病毒。这可能是首次分离出的肠道病毒70毒株。鉴定工作耗时良久，在日本公布新病毒分离结果很久之后才完成。与来自日本的病毒进行的交叉中和试验表明两者关系密切。1974年肯尼亚发生第二次疫情期间，分离出了更多该病毒毒株。本文描述了肯尼亚病毒分离与鉴定的历史以及该病的临床症状。
