Microsporidial keratoconjunctivitis after rugby tournament, Singapore

Microsporidial keratoconjunctivitis after rugby tournament, Singapore

We investigated an outbreak of 47 probable and 6 confirmed cases of microsporidial keratoconjunctivitis involving participants of an international rugby tournament in Singapore in April 2012.The mode of transmission was eye contact with soil. Vittaforma corneae was identified in 4 of 6 corneal scrap...

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Veröffentlicht in:Emerging infectious diseases 2013-09, Vol.19 (9), p.1484-1486
Hauptverfasser: Tan, Junda, Lee, Phoebe, Lai, Yingqi, Hishamuddin, Pengiran, Tay, Joanne, Tan, Ai Ling, Chan, Kian Sing, Lin, Raymond, Tan, Donald, Cutter, Jeffery, Goh, Kee Tai
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Adolescent
AIDS (Disease)
Child
Disease Outbreaks
Dispatch
Female
Football
fungi
Health aspects
Humans
Infection
keratoconjunctivitis
Keratoconjunctivitis - diagnosis
Keratoconjunctivitis - epidemiology
Keratoconjunctivitis - microbiology
Male
Microsporidia
Microsporidia - genetics
Microsporidiosis - diagnosis
Microsporidiosis - epidemiology
parasites
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Resveratrol
Rugby football
Singapore
Singapore - epidemiology
Soil moisture
Vittaforma corneae
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Zusammenfassung:We investigated an outbreak of 47 probable and 6 confirmed cases of microsporidial keratoconjunctivitis involving participants of an international rugby tournament in Singapore in April 2012.The mode of transmission was eye contact with soil. Vittaforma corneae was identified in 4 of 6 corneal scrapings and in 1 of 12 soil water samples.
ISSN:1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI:10.3201/eid1909.121464