Plunge Bath for Cases of Poliomyelitis

Compatible poliomyelitis cases in India during 2000.

OBJECTIVE To describe the characteristics of compatible poliomyelitis cases and to assess the programmatic implications of clusters of such cases in India. METHODS We described the characteristics of compatible poliomyelitis cases, identified clusters of compatible cases (two or more in the same district or neighbouring districts within two months), and examined their relationship to wild pol...

An improved cryogen for plunge freezing.

The use of an alkane mixture that remains liquid at 77 K to freeze specimens has advantages over the use of a pure alkane that is solid at 77 K. It was found that a mixture of methane and ethane did not give a cooling rate adequate to produce vitreous ice, but a mixture of propane and ethane did result in vitreous ice. Furthermore, the latter mixture produced less damage to specimens mounted on...

Compatible poliomyelitis cases in India during 2000 Kathryn

Objective To describe the characteristics of compatible poliomyelitis cases and to assess the programmatic implications of clusters of such cases in India. Methods We described the characteristics of compatible poliomyelitis cases, identified clusters of compatible cases (two or more in the same district or neighbouring districts within two months), and examined their relationship to wild polio...

The Early Treatment and Diagnosis of Anterior Poliomyelitis *Read at Bath, at a Meeting of the Bath and Bristol Branch of the British Medical Association, November 27th, 1929.

my personal experience goes, through observation of the cases admitted to the Bath Orthopaedic Hospital, the present epidemic began somewhere about the beginning of August and covers an area from Bridport to Swindon. It does not appear that the cases are exceedingly numerous, and, as a rule, this feature has been found in all the epidemics which have been studied, namely a wide epidemic area wi...

International comparison of species of monkey used for the neurovirulence test for oral poliomyelitis vaccine