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Aseptic Meningitis Due to Type 19 Echo Virus Infection

1960; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 263; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejm196009152631107

1533-4406

R. S. Faulkner, R. L. Ozere,

Parvovirus B19 Infection Studies

DURING the summer of 1955, in a survey of 56 children under four years of age who were admitted to Cincinnati hospitals with diarrhea as the chief symptom, Ramos-Alvarez1 isolated a range of viral agents. These included poliovirus Type 1; Coxsackie viruses Group A, Type 9, Group B, Types 1 and 2, Echo viruses Types 2, 8, 11 and 12, adenovirus Type 3; and 6 other unclassified agents. Some of these unclassified strains were shown to be antigenically distinct Echo viruses, and were later adopted as the prototypic Echo 18 and 19 viruses.2 The prototype 19 Echo virus was isolated . . .