Meningitis Due to Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus Endemic in a Hamster Colony
- 14 July 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 209 (2) , 265-267
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03160150051019
Abstract
Meningitis due to lymphocytic-choriomeningitis (LCM) virus occurred in a 36-year-old man after brief contact with infected hamsters. To our knowledge, this is the second instance of an LCM infection developing in a man exposed to hamsters used for experimental tumor investigation.Keywords
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