abstract   objective: to evaluate and review our experience with pediatric spinal injuries and factors affecting outcome, the authors conducted a retrospective clinical study of 43 cases (32 boys, 11 girls) of pediatric spine injuries treated during four years (january 1999 to december 2003).   methods: forty-three children with spinal injuries were studied retrospectively over four years and w...

The pathogenicity of infection produced following intracerebral (i.c.) inoculation of wild-type vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) or temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of VSV was compared. ts mutants used were ts 31 (VSV complementation group II) and ts 41 (VSV complementation group IV). The i.c. injection of wild-type VSV in weanling Swiss mice produced a rapidly fatal encephalitis with death o...