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An outbreak of aseptic meningitis associated with a previously unrecognized virus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

I. B. R. Duncan
I. B. R. Duncan
Affiliation:
University Virus Laboratory, Ruchill Hospital, Glasgow, N. W.
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In 1959, 69 cases of aseptic meningitis were admitted to various hospitals in Scotland—all apparently due to a Hitherto unrecognized virus. This agent had the characteristics of an ECHO virus but differed from the 28 ECHO viruses at present recognized. Seventy-five strains of the virus were isolated, and human thyroid and human amnion tissue cultures proved much superior to monkey kidney tissue cultures for its isolation.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 59 , Issue 2 , June 1961 , pp. 181 - 189
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

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