POLIOMYELITIS INFECTION IN HOUSEHOLDS - FREQUENCY OF VIREMIA AND SPECIFIC ANTIBODY RESPONSE
POLIOMYELITIS INFECTION IN HOUSEHOLDS - FREQUENCY OF VIREMIA AND SPECIFIC ANTIBODY RESPONSE
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DOI:
10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a119706
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发表时间:
1954-01-01
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通讯作者:
PAFFENBARGER, RS
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作者:
BODIAN, D;PAFFENBARGER, RS
Serum specimens from 132 child household contacts of poliomyelitis cases in Olmsted County, Minnesota, and in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1952, were obtained a few days after onset of the index case, and one mo. later. Type 1 poliomyelitis virus was isolated from the initial blood serum specimen of 5 children, out of a total of 9 who had no type 1 antibody at the time of initial bleeding. All 5 children experienced a sharp rise in type 1 antibody during the following 2 to 4 wks., and 4 had symptoms of "abortive" poliomyelitis within a few days after initial bleeding. Thirty-three children had a rise in type 1 antibody of at least 10-fold in the mo.-long observation period; 81 had levels of type 1 antibody ex-ceeding 1:100 in each of the paired sera (1:2). No specific anti- body rise was demonstrated in any of these children for types 2 and 3 poliomyelitis viruses. In Olmsted County, where poliomyelitis in adults was common, it was possible to study the relation of detection of specific antibody rises in child contacts to age of the index case in the household. Antibody responses were detected 3 times as often in contacts of index cases under 20, as in those associated with index cases 20 yrs. old or older. Of 84 household contacts of paralytic cases, only 6 gave no evidence of infection during the month following onset of the case, yet the corresponding cases were shown to have poliomyelitis virus in the feces at the time of initial bleeding of the household associates. Two household contacts who became paralyzed one and 3 days after the initial bleeding, respectively, already had a high level of type 1 neutralizing antibody at the time of the first bleeding.