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X. POLIOMYELITIS

J. A. TOOMEY, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1945;51(4):306-309.

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Paul²⁵⁴ reports on the localization of the virus of poliomyelitis in human beings and on the epidemiology of the disease.

Howe and Bodian²⁵⁵ demonstrated virus in a series of 174 specimens of stools from human beings and chimpanzees. They state that if 2 or more test animals were used the recovery rate would be 90 per cent.

Ward and Sabin²⁵⁶ described 2 patients with poliomyelitis and 1 healthy person from whom poliomyelitis virus had been isolated from the stools in the winter.

Melnick²⁵⁷ describes rod-shaped particles found with a new electron microscope in the stools of patients with poliomyelitis. They were also present in stools from normal patients; it was impossible to say whether these were the specific virus of poliomyelitis or were normal physiologic constituents of stools. Concrete evidence was lacking.

Howe and Bodian²⁵⁸ isolated poliomyelitis virus from the stools of 2 uninoculated chimpanzees . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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