CONTEXT Vaccinia virus (VACV) is a member of orthopoxvirus genus of the family Poxviridae. VACVs are enveloped, double-stranded DNA viruses. Several species of this family, for example, molluscum contagiosum, smallpox, deerpox, horsepox, rabbitpox, and VACVs may cause conjunctivitis. AIMS Given the high incidence of keratoconjunctivitis in Iran (approximately 3.6%-53.9%) and insufficient clin...

Since July 1973 cases of keratoconjunctivitis resembling epidemic keratoconjunctivitis were observed in the External Eye Disease Clinic at Moorfields Eye Hospital; City Road, London. Adenovirus type 19 was isolated in human embryonic kidney cells from 21 patients. The majority were males between 20 and 40 years old. A small hospital outbreak involving six patients occurred. Clinical features of...

PURPOSE The most common external ocular viral infections are caused by several human adenovirus (HAdV) types. Ganciclovir has been reported to inhibit cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex virus types 1 and 2, varicella zoster virus, and Epstein-Barr virus. Ganciclovir ophthalmic gel, 0.15% (Virgan®) is commercially available for cytomegalovirus or herpes virus keratitis. However its inhibitory activ...

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...

The Manchineel tree is an evergreen widely distributed in tropical regions. The toxic nature of Manchineel has been known since the early sixteenth century. Contact with its milky sap (latex) produces bullous dermatitis and acute keratoconjunctivitis. We identified 19 patients who had ocular injuries caused by Manchineel between 1985 and 1990 and were able to review 12. All of these patients ha...

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purpose: to compare clinical outcomes following penetrating keratoplasty (pk) versus deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (dalk) for keratoconic patients with vernal keratoconjunctivitis (vkc). methods: in this retrospective comparative study, the records of 69 keratoconic eyes with vkc that underwent pk (n=43, group 1) or dalk (n=26, group 2) were compiled. postoperative best-corrected visual a...

Introduction. Moraxella bovoculi is frequently isolated from the eyes of cattle with infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK; pinkeye). As M. bovis, which has been causally linked to IBK, expresses an RTX (repeats in structural toxin) cytotoxin that related bovis cytotoxin. Pilin, another pathogenic factor , required for corneal attachment. Seven antigenically distinct pilin serogroups have...