Epidemic kerato-conjunctivitis—do outbreaks have to be epidemic?
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Outbreaks of epidemic kerato-conjunctivitis in two hospital wards.
The authors analyzed two hospital outbreaks of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC), one at the Department of Ophthalmology (30 cases) and another one at the Department of Premature Newborns (22 cases). In both outbreaks, EKC was diagnosed in inpatients (16 and 6 respectively), outpatients (5 and 3 respectively), healthcare workers (HCWs) (3 and 5 respectively), and relatives of EKC patients (6 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eye
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0950-222X,1476-5454
DOI: 10.1038/sj.eye.6700330