Adenovirus

New adenovirus study findings reported from Mansoura University, Clinical Pathology Department

Published in Health Risk Factor Week, April 8th, 2008

A report, 'Rapid detection of oculopathogenic adenovirus in conjunctivitis,' is newly published data in Current Microbiology. According to a study from Mansoura, Egypt, "Ocular adenovirus (Ad) infections occur throughout the world in both sporadic and epidemic forms. Accurate laboratory diagnosis of Ad in conjunctival samples is always valuable."

"The present study was carried out to explore the presence of Ad as a causative agent in clinically suspected viral conjunctivitis and to compare the performance of conventional virus isolation on cell cultures, direct detection of Ad antigens in conjunctival cells by a direct fluorescence assay, Ad DNA detection by...

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