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  3. Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis caused by coxsackievirus A24 variant, South Korea, 2002

Acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis caused by coxsackievirus A24 variant, South Korea, 2002

  • Emerg Infect Dis. 2003 Aug;9(8):1010-2. doi: 10.3201/eid0908.030190.
Myoung-don Oh 1,  Sangwon Park,  Youngju Choi,  Hongbin Kim,  Kiduk Lee,  Wanbum Park,  Youngae Yoo,  Eui-Chong Kim,  Kangwon Choe
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Affiliation

  • 1 Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
PMID: 12967504 DOI: 10.3201/eid0908.030190
Abstract

In summer 2002, a nationwide outbreak of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis occurred in South Korea. The etiologic agent was confirmed as coxsackievirus A24 variant (CA24v) by virus isolation and sequencing of a part of the VP1 gene. Phylogentic analysis, based on the protease 3C sequences, showed that the Korean isolates were clustered into a lineage distinct from the CA24v isolates reported in previous outbreaks in Asia.

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