SEROLOGICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF REOVIRUS INFECTION (1 REPORT)

Serological studies with reovirus-like enteritis agent.

The age distribution of antibody to the human reovirus-like enteritis agent, and to the antigenically related Nebraska calf diarrhea virus (NCDV) was studied in serum specimens obtained from 592 children hospitalized in Boston. Sera were examined for complement-fixation (CF) antibody to the human agent, and for CF and indirect immunofluorescence-staining antibodies to NCDV. The curve of antibod...

[Serological diagnosis of HIV-1 infection].

In the Western blot, HIV-1 or HIV-2 proteins are denatured, separated by electrophoresis in function of their molecular weight and transferred on a nitrocellulose strip. The presence of antibodies against one or several of these proteins is revealed by an immuno-enzymatic reaction producing a colored reaction. The result is interpreted with well-defined criteria. Incomplete profiles can be obse...

Serological Epidemiology in Measles **

One usually thinks of measles as a minor childhood illness through which we all must pass and as a nuisance more than a danger. But this was not always the case. In colonial America, two hundred years ago, measles was dreaded like the plague, and today in remote parts of the world, on isolated islands and in the Arctic, it can be a devastating disease. Even here and now in the United States it ...

Epidemiology of Rotavirus Infection in Certain Countries

Abstract Acute diarrhea with severe dehydration has been a major worldwide cause of death in children younger than 5 years of age. Etiological studies of gastroenteritis have shown that rotavirus causes 40–50% of acute diarrhea among infants and children in both developing and developed nations. Numerous epidemiologic studies in the US and the World Health Organization have docu...

Reovirus infection in the pigeon.