TY - JOUR AU - Kayali, Ghazi AU - Park, Sangwon AU - Choi, Youngju AU - Kim, Hongbin AU - Lee, Kiduk AU - Park, Wanbum AU - Yoo, Youngae AU - Kim, Eui-Chong AU - Choe, Kangwon T1 - Acute Hemorrhagic Conjunctivitis caused by Coxsackievirus A24 Variant, South Korea, 2002 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2003 VL - 9 IS - 8 SP - 1010 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In summer 2002, a nationwide outbreak of acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis occurred in South Korea. The etiologic agent was confirmed as coxsackievirus A24 variant (CA24v) by virus isolation and sequencing of a part of the VP1 gene. Phylogentic analysis, based on the protease 3C sequences, showed that the Korean isolates were clustered into a lineage distinct from the CA24v isolates reported in previous outbreaks in Asia. KW - acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis KW - coxsackievirus A24 variant KW - South Korea KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid0908.030190 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/9/8/03-0190_article ER - End of Reference