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Clinical and Laboratory Studies

HENRY G. CRAMBLETT, M.D.; HUGH L. MOFFET, M.D.; GORDON K. MIDDLETON, JR., M.D.; JOYCE P. BLACK, B.S.; HELEN SHULENBERGER, B.S.; ANN YONGUE, B.S.

Arch Intern Med. 1962;110(5):574-579.

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The prototype strain of ECHO virus Type 19 was recovered in 1955 by Ramos-Alvarez and Sabin^1,2 from an infant with diarrhea. In 1959, Faulkner and Ozere³ recovered this virus from the cerebrospinal fluid of a 49-year-old man in Nova Scotia. Since that time, we are not aware of any reports of recovery of ECHO 19 virus from ill individuals.

During the period from July, 1960, through September, 1961, ECHO 19 virus was recovered in our laboratory from specimens of 30 patients. This article describes the illnesses of the patients and the laboratory studies of the virus isolates.

Methods

Patients Studied.—

During the period of this study, several population groups were under surveillance for viral diseases. These included children (5 to 18 years of age) in a children's home, infants less than 6 months of age and their mothers in a well-baby clinic, children in a rheumatic fever clinic, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.

Fellow, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Dr. Moffet, Dr. Middleton).; From the Virology Laboratory, Department of Pediatrics and Microbiology, The Bowman Gray School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Read by title at the Second Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Pediatric Research, Atlanta, Ga., November, 1961.

This study was supported in part by Grant A-3941 from the National Institutes of Health and by a grant from the United Medical Research Foundation.

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