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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
卷 233, 期 -, 页码 227-242出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2021.10.028
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- National Institutes of Health [R21EY027453, R21EY033174, P30EY0001730]
- Research to Prevent Blindness
- Mark J. Daily, MD Research Fund
This study aims to determine the characteristics of conjunctivitis associated with human adenovirus E4 (AdV E4). The results suggest that AdV E4 is the most frequently identified adenoviral type in conjunctivitis cases from the United States. The signs and symptoms at presentation are comparable to those of AdV D8, but the resolution is more rapid in the AdV E4 group and the risk for subepithelial infiltrates is lower.
PURPOSE To determine the characteristics of conjunctivitis associated with human adenovirus E4 (AdV E4). METHODS Samples and outcomes from 500 patients with conjunctivitis were obtained from the NVC-422 randomized controlled clinical trial comparing auriclosene to placebo. Molecular typing identified 36 cases associated with AdV E4. Signs and symptoms at presentation and at the day 18 endpoint were compared with the larger cohort of 262 subjects with conjunctivitis caused by due to AdV D8. Full viral genomes of 22 AdV E4 isolates were reconstructed. RESULTS AdV E4 was the most frequently identified adenoviral type in conjunctivitis cases from the United States. Signs and symptoms at presentation were comparable to those associated with AdV D8. Viral load at presentation was comparable between groups but resolution was more rapid in the AdV E4 group. Clinical signs were fully resolved by day 18 in 26 of 36 (72%) patients with AdV E4. Subepithelial infiltrates developed in 12 of 36 (33%) patients with AdV E4 compared with 98 of 215 (45%) patients with AdV D8 (P = .0001). One hundred twenty-four polymorphisms were observed among 22 whole viral genome sequences, which clustered into 3 clades. Patients in each clade developed subepithelial infiltrates. Neither single nucleotide polymorphism analysis nor machine learning approaches identified specific sequence features predictive of presenting signs or outcome. CONCLUSIONS AdV E4 conjunctivitis may be indistinguishable at presentation from AdV D8-associated disease. Resolution of viral load for AdV E4 appears more rapid than for AdV D8, and the risk for subepithelial infiltrates appears lower. Multiple substrains of AdV E4 are in circulation but all appeared equivalently pathogenic for conjunctivitis. NOTE: Publication of this article is sponsored by the American Ophthalmological Society. (C) 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc.
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