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
Affiliations
  • 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.