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SUBMITTER: Burr SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5717804 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Burr Sarah E SE Sillah Ansumana A Joof Hassan H Bailey Robin L RL Holland Martin J MJ
BMC research notes 20171206 1
<h4>Objective</h4>An outbreak of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis occurred in The Gambia, West Africa in 2011. Affected individuals presented with conjunctival haemorrhages, swelling and ocular discharge. In an effort to identify a causative agent of the disease, ocular swabs were taken from patients during the acute and convalescent phases. Total RNA was extracted from all samples and reverse-transcriptase PCR performed using primers specific for all enteroviruses. Resulting amplicons were seq ...[more]