A correlation between the weather and the incidence of ocular adenovirus infections.
Cyclical changes in the frequency of adenovirus isolation from patients with non-epidemic conjunctivitis were shown to correlate with monthly total hours of sunshine. Sunlight may predispose to clinical infection eyes already contaminated with adenovirus.
D000257:Adenoviridae Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000258:Adenovirus Infections, Human / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000260:Adenoviruses, Human / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003236:Conjunctivitis, Viral / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013472:Sunlight; D014887:Weather