| Disease/Syndrome |
Adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis |
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| Category |
Infection, Occupational |
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| Acute/Chronic |
Acute-Moderate |
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| Synonyms |
Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis; EKC; Shipyard conjunctivitis; |
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| Biomedical References |
Search PubMed |
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| Comments |
"Adenovirus survives for long periods on environmental surfaces; ophthalmologic instruments and equipment can become contaminated and transmit infection. Contaminated hands are also a major source of person-to-person transmission of adenovirus, both from patients to health care personnel and from health care personnel to patients." [CDC Guidelines for Infection Control in Health Care Personnel] |
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| Latency/Incubation |
5-12 days |
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| Diagnostic |
Culture; Paired sera; Detection of antigens by immunofluorescence or DNA probe; Identify virus by FA staining or electron microscope; [CCDM, p. 126-30] |
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| ICD-9 Code |
077.1 |
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| Reference Link |
Surveillance and control of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis |
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