Adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis

Disease/Syndrome
Adenoviral keratoconjunctivitis
Category
Infection, Occupational
Acute/Chronic
Acute-Moderate (not life-threatening)
Synonyms
Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis; EKC; Shipyard conjunctivitis;
Biomedical References
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
Diagnostic
Culture; Paired sera; Detect antigens by immunofluorescence; DNA probe; [CCDM, p. 129]
ICD-9 Code
077.1
ICD-10 Code
B30.0

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