NONPOLIOVIRUSES AND PARALYTIC DISEASE

  • 1 January 1962
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 97  (1) , 1-+
Abstract
A number of nonpolioviruses have been implicated as the probable etiologic agents of paralytic illness clinically resembling poliomyelitis, including certain immunotypes of Coxsackie group A, Coxsackie group B, and ECHO viruses, and the viruses of mumps, herpes simplex and arthropod-borne encephalitides. Many well documented cases provide evidence that some of these viruses may on occasion be the causative agents of severe, even fatal, myelitis, bulbomyelitis or encephalomyelitis. In the aggregate, various nonpolioviruses have been encountered in approximately 10% of the patients studied with clinical poliomyelitis, but it is uncertain how many of these cases may represent coincidental infections not causally related to the current illness.