1962 Annual Report Virus Reference Laboratory *

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  • A P GRANT
چکیده

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 isolated from all cases. In addition, there were three patients with limb paralysis in whom the C.S.F. findings were suggestive of polyneuritis; poliovirus was not isolated from these patients and they had no rise in poliovirus neutralizing antibody during their illnesses. A case of facial palsy in which a diagnosis of poliomyelitis was considered possible was found to be due to geniculate herpes. Type 1 poliovirus was also isolated from six cases of aseptic meningitis. The age and sex of the patients with poliomyelitis were as follows:

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • The Ulster Medical Journal

دوره 32  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1963