ENCEPHALITIS: ISOLATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF VIRUS FROM BODY FLUIDS OF HUMAN SUBJECTS

[摘要] Routine studies, for isolation and identification of the infectious agent, were made on patients showing signs of clinical encephalitis. The following results cover a period of about 10 years:A strain of virus immunologically identical with the virus of St. Louis encephalitis was recovered from the peripheral blood. One of 81 attempts gave positive result, approximately 1%.Seven strains of virus, comprising five of lymphocytic choriomeningitis, one of vaccinia and one of herpes simplex, were isolated from spinal fluid in 7 of 304 attempts, approximately 2%.Increasing titer of type specific antibody to the virus of St. Louis encephalitis was demonstrated in 17 of 152 patients during the course of clinical encephalitis, approximately 1%.

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