A Clinical, Epidemiologic and Laboratory Investigation of Aseptic Meningitis during the Four-Year Period, 1955–1958

Autor:	Frederick C. Robbins, Harry T. Wright, Wilna A. Woods, David H. Carver, Martha L. Lepow
Rok vydání:	1962
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Prevalence Aseptic meningitis General Medicine medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease Poliomyelitis Virus Diseases Internal medicine Epidemiology Immunology medicine Etiology Humans Enterovirus Meningitis Meningitis Aseptic Pleocytosis business
Zdroj:	New England Journal of Medicine. 266:1181-1187
ISSN:	1533-4406 0028-4793
Popis:	ASEPTIC meningitis1 is a clinical syndrome encompassing a group of illnesses that includes and is clinically indistinguishable from nonparalytic poliomyelitis. The principal features are fever and signs of meningeal irritation, with cerebrospinal-fluid findings of pleocytosis, increased protein, normal sugar and absence of bacteria. Among infectious agents, viruses have been most frequently associated with this syndrome. In recent years the relation of some of the newly recognized members of the enterovirus group2 to the aseptic-meningitis syndrome has been established by isolation in tissue culture of viruses from patients with these illnesses. This group of viruses has epidemiologic and laboratory attributes closely . . .
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