OBJECTIVE To compare lung function between patients with post-poliomyelitis syndrome and those with sequelae of paralytic poliomyelitis (without any signs or symptoms of post-poliomyelitis syndrome), as well as between patients with post-poliomyelitis syndrome and healthy controls. METHODS Twenty-nine male participants were assigned to one of three groups: control; poliomyelitis (comprising p...

mycoplasma contaminants can be considered important not only for their roles as pathogens but also they may indicate that insufficient care has been taken during vaccine manufacture or quality control. the purpose of this study was to test the poliomyelitis vaccines for mycoplasma by culture and polymerase chain reaction (pcr) methods. during 2008 to 2009, a total of 47 lots of oral poliomyelit...

It is the purpose of this report to describe a part of the natural history of poliomyelitis in the State of Alabama during the elevenyear period, 1931 to 1942. Two epidemics of poliomyelitis occurred in Alabama during this period of time, apparently the first of any size to be recorded in the state. The occurrence of large epidemics of poliomyelitis in the deep South in recent years' 15 makes i...

1. Rhesus monkeys inoculated with canine distemper are relatively or completely immune to experimental poliomyelitis during the first 2 weeks of the distemper. 2. Monkeys convalescent from distemper are not resistant to experimental poliomyelitis. 3. Two monkeys vaccinated with distemper virus responded to poliomyelitis in a modified manner. 4. Distemper antiserum did not influence the course o...

The World Health Organization recommends conducting supplemental immunization activities to eradicate poliomyelitis by the year 2000. Although effective in eliminating poliomyelitis from the Americas, supplemental campaigns require substantial resources. To assess differential campaign effectiveness in eliminating this disease, poliomyelitis occurrence was compared in counties in China that tar...

Experiments are reported which describe the isolation of poliomyelitis virus from the throats of two patients during an attack of so called abortive poliomyelitis (Wickman type), or what we have termed characteristic minor illnesses in association with poliomyelitis. This finding represents added evidence in favor of the belief, previously held by many observers, that certain types of minor ill...

1. Efforts to adapt the virus of poliomyelitis to the rabbit organism and to produce poliomyelitis in rabbits by testicular injection and by brain injection after testicular passage produced no evidence that the virus could be adapted in this manner. Suggestive symptoms produced in very young rabbits were duplicated in non-specifically treated and in uninoculated controls. The admixture of a va...

Young mice infected with Group B Coxsackie virus were rendered markedly resistant to poliomyelitis virus given from 4 to 10 days later. A sparing effect was detectable in somewhat older mice and in young mice inoculated with poliomyelitis after shorter intervals, but in both cases few mice survived. Interference was manifest by survival, by prolongation of the course of poliomyelitis, and by a ...

Poliomyelitis is an exclusively human disease that mainly affects children. Clinical features of poliomyelitis can be varied, from mild illness to the most severe paralysis, and factor why has different performances in individuals been proved strongly correlated with membrane protein CD155. The nervous system shows a special protecting phenomenon against invasion poliovirus, mechanism not very ...