Virus infection in the Blackburn area 1962-69.

1962 Annual Report Virus Reference Laboratory *

THIS is the sixth report of the Virus Reference Laboratory and, as in previous reports, only the more interesting and rewarding aspects of the work will be presented. POLIOMYELITIS. Laboratory Diagnosis. During 1962 there were thirty-one cases of paralytic poliomyelitis in Northern Ireland, including one death, giving an attack rate of 2.2 per 100,000 of the population. Type 1 poliovirus was is...

The Absence of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Patients with Hepatitis B virus in Mashhad, Iran

Background and Aims: Many studies have provided evidence for the role of hepatitis B and C viruses in the development of liver cancer. Although the routine treatment is available for both conditions, no definite guideline is available to treat patients dually infected with HBV and HCV. This study was performed to determine the frequency of HBV/HCV-coinfection in Mashhad, North-East of Iran. Mat...

Jeff Blackburn

Miliary tuberculosis in a high prevalence area of the U.K.: Blackburn 1978-1993.

Thirty-nine cases of military tuberculosis treated between 1978-1993 in a district with a high incidence of tuberculosis are reported. Twenty-eight patients were of Indian Subcontinent (ISC) ethnic origin, 10 patients were Caucasian and one patient was Chinese. Mortality at 10% in both Caucasian (chi2 4.94; 0.05 > P > 0.01) and ISC patients (chi2 10.22; 0.001 > P) were significantly lower than ...

Blackburn Royal Infirmary

being 152 and the average number occupied daily 156.12, I would point out that your inference is quite correct. The increased number has been caused by additional beds having been fixed in the wards during most of the year. With regard to your last reference in the paragraph that the Report is without an index and that you had to read to the 18th page before you discovered the number of beds, I...