During the period October 1968 to March 1969 echovirus type 18 was isolated from 83 patients investigated at Fairfield Hospital for Communicable Diseases, Melbourne. The illnesses most commonly associated with these isolations were aseptic meningitis, and fever with rash.We believe that this is the first report of an epidemic due to echovirus type 18 and the first occasion on which this virus has been shown to produce disease in adults.

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Mixed-case effects in lateralized word recognition.

Effects of case alternation and word length were studied in a lateralized visual lexical decision task. The previously reported visual field and word length interaction was found for upper- and lowercase presentations, but not for MiXeD CaSe, where both fields were affected by word length. We discuss the results in light of two contrasting models of lateralized word recognition.

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