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The clinical description of the ocular lesions in measles is derived from the daily slitlamp-examination of the 148 children in “Mukumu I”, during the measles epidemic in 1976. In the well-known catarrhal conjunctivitis of prodromal measles a distinction could be made into two different disease-entities: a subepithelial conjunctivitis and an epithelial conjunctivokeratitis. The former occurs early and is localized in the subepithelial tissue, mainly of the tarsal, and less of the bulbar, conjunctiva, whereas the latter occurs some days later, is strictly epithelial and is localized in the exposed parts of the bulbar conjunctiva.
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Dekkers, N.W.H.M. (1981). Clinical description of Ocular signs and Corneal complications of Measles. In: The Cornea in Measles. Monographs in Ophthalmology, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8677-0_4
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