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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.
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Yirrell, D.L., Darville, J.M., Armstrong, A.G. et al. A correlation between the weather and the incidence of ocular adenovirus infections. Archives of Virology 91, 367–373 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01314295
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