| epidemic keratoconjunctivitis and chronic papillary conjunctivitis in london due to adenovirus type 19. | 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 the disease, consisting of moderate to severe follicular conjunctivitis, major subepithelial punctate ... | 1977 | 191054 |