Parainfluenza Viruses

Biology of parainfluenza viruses.

Parainfluenza virus types 1 to 4 (PIV1 to PIV4) are important human pathogens that cause upper and lower respiratory tract infections, especially in infants and children. PIV1, PIV2, and PIV3 are second only to respiratory syncytial virus as a cause of croup in young children. Although some clinical symptoms are typical of PIVs, etiologic diagnosis always requires detection of infectious virus,...

Studies of Parainfluenza Viruses

Serologic cross reactions have been demonstrated between members of the parainfluenza subgroup of myxoviruses.7'-Similar antigenic relationships have also been noted between mumps virus and each of the four parainfluenza virus serotyes" and between mumps and Newcastle disease virus.7'8 Furthermore, the DA virus, § a myxovirus recently isolated from human blood, which is serologically indistingu...

Survival of human parainfluenza viruses in the South Polar environment.

The survival of human parainfluenza virus types 1, 2, and 3 was measured in both indoor and outdoor environments at South Pole Station, Antarctica, in an effort to determine the long-term survival of these viruses in this environment and to identify the possible source of respiratory tract illnesses which occurred in this isolated population in 1978 after 10 and 27 weeks of total social isolati...

Serological survey for antibodies against infectious bovine rhinotracheitis and parainfluenza 3 viruses among cattle in Iran

Infection with Influenza and Parainfluenza Viruses in Cronic Bronchitis.

Exacerbations of chronic bronchitis are often preceded by symptoms of infection of the upper respiratory tract, but little is known of the frequency with which they are precipitated by virus infections. There is evidence that bronchitics develop severe illness when infected with influenza A virus (Tyrrell, 1952; Walker, Douglas, Leckie, Pines, and Grant, 1958; Louria, Blumenfeld, Ellis, Kilbour...