ENTEROVIRUSES

[摘要] A NUMBER of years ago, investigations utilizing monkeys resulted in the recovery of three types of poliomyelitis viruses from the human gastrointestinal tract. More recently, the use of infant mice led to the discovery of an entirely new family of enteric viruses, the Coxsackie agents, which, on the basis of histopathologic reactions in mice, are divisable into two subgroups: A, with 19 serologically distinct members; and B, with 5.A further advance in methodology, the use of simplified methods of tissue culture, resulted in the isolation of a third family of viruses from the intestinal tract, named, by general agreement, the enteric cytopathogenic human orphan (ECHO) group.

[学科分类] 儿科学