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Table 3 Relationship between corneal clinical findings and Adenovirus genome detection

From: The molecular epidemiology, genotyping, and clinical manifestation of prevalent adenovirus infection during the epidemic keratoconjunctivitis, South of Iran

Clinical finding

Results

Real-time PCR

Positive

Negative

Total

P value *

Punctate Epithelial Erosions (PEE)

Yes

31

8

39

0.58

No

95

19

114

Corneal epithelial defects (CED)

Yes

7

1

8

>0.5

No

119

26

145

Subepithelial infiltration (SEI)

Yes

6

1

7

>0.5

No

120

26

146

Punctate Epithelial Keratitis (PEK)

Yes

10

2

12

>0.05

No

116

25

141

  1. The bold values highlighted to show the significant difference between frequency