ABSTRACT
A rapidly fatal encephalomyelitis, which was in most cases characterized by ascending paralysis, developed in seven children of the age of 3 to 10 years in a bushnegro village in the interior of Surinam. Rabies virus was recovered from the central nervous system of three autopsied children. Although the source of infection has not been detected, there is an indication that, at least in some cases, the disease has been transmitted by rat-bite rather than by vampire bats. During the same period a few cases of minor febrile illness occurred in the same community. Since virological and serological evidence of a wide-spread distribution of Coxsackie A virus type 4 was obtained, the latter illness may presumably be attributed to this virus.
Subject(s)
Disease Outbreaks/epidemiology , Rabies/epidemiology , Animals , Antibodies, Viral/analysis , Central Nervous System/microbiology , Child , Child, Preschool , Encephalomyelitis/epidemiology , Encephalomyelitis/microbiology , Enterovirus/immunology , Enterovirus/isolation & purification , Feces/microbiology , Female , Humans , Male , Mice , Paralysis/epidemiology , Rabbits , Rabies/microbiology , Rabies/transmission , Rabies virus/immunology , Rabies virus/isolation & purification , Rats , SurinameSubject(s)
Chiroptera , Rabies virus/isolation & purification , Animals , Cattle , Cross Reactions , Fluorescent Antibody Technique , Guinea Pigs , Methods , Mice , Neutralization Tests , Rabbits , Rabies virus/immunology , SurinameSubject(s)
Central Nervous System/pathology , Poliovirus/pathogenicity , Virulence , Animals , Antigens/analysis , Child, Preschool , Culture Techniques , Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral , Feces/microbiology , Haplorhini , Humans , Immune Sera , Infant , Kidney , Netherlands , Neutralization Tests , Poliovirus/immunology , Poliovirus/isolation & purification , Rabbits , Sewage , TemperatureABSTRACT
Publicado en ingles en el Bull. WHO 9(4):559, 1953
