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Alternative Title:
Int J Infect Dis
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2018.08.009
Personal Author:
Li, Jie ; Lu, Xiaoyan ; Sun, Yamin ; Lin, Changying ; Li, Feng ; ... More +
Li, Jie ; Lu, Xiaoyan ; Sun, Yamin ; Lin, Changying ; Li, Feng ; Yang, Yang ; Liang, Zhichao ; Jia, Lei ; Chen, Lijuan ; Jiang, Baoming ; Wang, Quanyi Less -
Description:
Patients with swimming pool-acquired human adenovirus (HAdV) infections usually manifest characteristic clinical features that include fever, pharyngitis, and conjunctival inflammation, syndromically referred to as pharyngoconjunctival fever (PCF). HAdV types 3, 4, and 7 are most commonly associated with PCF. This article reports an outbreak of PCF that involved 55 students and staff at a university in Beijing, China. Fifty patients had used the same swimming pool 2 weeks before the onset of symptoms. HAdV type 4 was identified from patient eye and throat swabs and concentrated swimming pool water samples. Partial hexon gene sequences obtained from the water samples were 100% identical to the sequences obtained from the swab samples, which clustered with HAdV-4 within species E. Swimming pool water contaminated with HAdV-4 was the most likely source of infection, although one instance of likely person-to-person transmission was noted.
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Article
Human Adenovirus
Outbreak
Pharyngoconjunctival Fever

Source:
Int J Infect Dis. 75:89-91.
Pubmed ID:
30144556
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC6198331
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States
Place as Subject:
China
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:a7dcbab1e03feb558cecf1466e20d3dfa8befe6825cd29f5f1b5da1fcd322d5c
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