RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF CARRIER STATE AND DETECTION OF POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS
- 8 September 1945
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 129 (2) , 121-123
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1945.02860360023006
Abstract
Well established is the fact that the virus of poliomyelitis may be demonstrated in the stools of a high percentage of cases of the disease and that in some it may be present for varying lengths of time up to several weeks1and even months2after the onset of clinical disease. Virus has been recovered from the oropharynx in approximately 50 per cent of the cases when swabs or washings were obtained within a few days of the onset of paralysis,3but its detection in this site is uncommon after the fifth day of disease.4 Presumptive evidence of the harboring of the virus for a considerable period prior to the onset of disease has been advanced by Francis and his associates,5who described 5 cases of poliomyelitis with three deaths following tonsillectomy in children probably carrying the virus. Taylor and Amoss6demonstrated virus inKeywords
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