Enhanced laboratory surveillance could help clinicians and public-health officials to identify relevant secular changes in the spectrum of causes of conjunctivitis.
Epidemic gonococcal conjunctivitis is an ongoing problem in indigenous populations.
After a prodromal fever, patients often experience coryza, cough and conjunctivitis followed by a blotchy rash.
Of the students reporting pink eye, 60 (32 %) had been diagnosed with conjunctivitis by a physician.
Because conjunctivitis is frequently benign, culture is rarely performed.
As a result, clinicians and public-health officials may overlook secular changes in the spectrum of conjunctivitis aetiologies.
There were two cases of conjunctivitis which occurred after the onset of endocarditis.
There is no purulent discharge, so the term "conjunctivitis" is not appropriate.
