The etiology of mumps
The etiology of mumps
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DOI:
10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a118119
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发表时间:
1935-01-01
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通讯作者:
Goodpasture, EW
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作者:
Johnson, CD;Goodpasture, EW
The authors have previously shown [thisBulletin, 1934, v. 9, 239] that it is possible to produce an acute non-suppurative parotitis in rhesus monkeys by inoculation into Stenson's duct of saliva taken from early cases of mumps. Evidence was obtained that the experimental disease was determined by a filtrable, cytotropic virus that was resistant to freezing, drying and glycerination. The virus has been carried on for several generations through monkeys, and has now been used to produce mumps in human volunteers. Bacteriologically sterile parotid glands were removed at the height of the experimental disease from two monkeys inoculated with the eleventh generation of virus and were ground up in sterile saline. After the heavy particles had settled, the supernatant suspension was used for the human inoculations. Seventeen volunteers were selected, 13 of whom were presumably susceptible and 4 immune. Infection was carried out on 2 successive days, partly by spraying the orifice of Stenson's duct, partly by spraying the nose, and partly by the temporary insertion of an infected cotton wool pad between the cheek and the upper teeth. None of the 4 immunes showed any effect. Of the 13 susceptibles, 6 developed clinical mumps in 18-33 days, 3 snowed questionable changes, while 4 remained well. With the saliva of one of the positive cases the experimental disease was reproduced again in monkeys. These experiments seem to show that the virus causing experimental parotitis in monkeys is identical with that responsible for mumps in human beings.G. S. Wilson.