Epidemiology of Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis
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Epidemic Keratoconjunctivitis
1. A virus has been isolated from two patients suffering with epidemic keratoconjunctivitis. 2. At first the virus could be maintained only by the inoculation of tissue cultures (serum ultrafiltrate and embryonic mouse brain) with conjunctival scrapings or with emulsified mouse brains from early passage animals. Later it caused a fatal disease in every mouse into which it was inoculated, and co...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health
سال: 1943
ISSN: 0002-9572
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.33.10.1187