Adenovirus isolations from patients with conjunctivitis in Thuringia.

57 adenoviruses (AV's) isolated from 1979 through 1986 from about 200 patients with (kerato) conjunctivitis were identified as AV8, 7, 3, 17/H29, 9, 2, and 10, in decreasing order. DNA restriction analysis with 5 enzymes revealed the three strains of the intermediate 17/H29 strains to be identical. The same conclusion was reached for the two AV9 strains, but the latter differed from the AV9 prototype in two enzymes. Restriction site alterations were physically mapped for 3 enzymes and for an AV8 variant differing in HindIII.