摘要：High rates of absenteeism in a North Queensland primary school, due to eye irritation, fever, headache, andstomach pain, were reported to the Tropical Public Health Unit in October 2000. Subsequent investigationdemonstrated that the symptoms were due to adenovirus infection. Symptoms were consistent with a diagnosis ofpharyngoconjunctival fever. At the height of the outbreak, about 40 per cent of students were absent. There was astrong association between the development of symptoms, and having been swimming on a recent school camp.Adenovirus could not be isolated from swimming pool water from the resort where the camp had been held.However, when inspected the swimming pool was not adequately chlorinated or maintained. It is probable thatadenovirus infection was transmitted via swimming pool water at the school camp, and the outbreak might havebeen avoided by higher standards of swimming pool maintenance
关键词：adenovirus; pharyngoconjunctival fever; school; swimming pool
