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VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS DURING A POLIOMYELITIS EPIDEMIC: A REPORT OF FIVE CASES*
- I. DRAVIN, M.D.;
- J. H. COFFEY, M.D.; and
- W. C. DINE, M.D., F.A.C.P.
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We have recently had occasion to study five cases of virus encephalitis admitted within a six week period during a moderately severe epidemic of poliomyelitis. Four of these were identified as western equine encephalitis and one as St. Louis encephalitis by complement fixation and neutralizing antibody studies.†
A filtrable virus was found in 1924 to be the cause of a mild form of equine encephalomyelitis of horses, known in Europe for many years as Borna disease. A similar condition had also been noted in the United States for many years, but it was not until 1930 that the virus was
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↵* Received for publication May 17, 1950.
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Reviewed in the Veterans Administration and published with the approval of the Chief Medical Director. The statements and conclusions published by the authors are the result of their own study and do not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of the Veterans Administration.
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↵† These were performed by the Department of Virus and Rickettsial Diseases, Army Medical Department and Graduate School, Washington 12, D. C.
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