学童を中心に一農村に集団発生した流行性角結膜炎についての考察

Studies of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis among the school-children in a farm-village in Aomori

緒言

　流行性角結膜炎は戦後我国各地に於いても狙獗を極めてから，最近はありふれた眼疾患として広く一般に浸潤して，都市のclinicに於いては散発性に見られるのが通例である。

　本症の病原が略々決定された今日は，病因についてもウイール学的に漸く輪廓が認識されるに到つたとはいえ，尚臨床的には鑑別診断，治療及び予防等について残されている問題も少なくない。

In October 1959, epidemic keratoconjunctivitis prevailed throughout a village "Shingo" in Aomori Prefecture, so the inhabitants of this village called it "Shingo" conjunctivitis.

The author examined the villagers and then, among the school-children found out 110 patients. Among them, 31 patients (28.2%) were accompanied at the same time by super-ficial punctate keratitis, 21 patients had pseudomembranes on their conjunctivas, 64 patients were infected from their families. Relapses seen to have occured in 11 cases.