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E H LENNETTE

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Nonpolioviruses and paralytic disease.

A number of nonpolioviruses have been implicated as the probable etiologic agents of paralytic illness clinically resembling poliomyelitis, including certain immunotypes of Coxsackie group A, Coxsackie group B, and ECHO viruses, and the viruses of mumps, herpes simplex and arthropod-borne encephalitides. A number of well documented cases provide evidence that some of these viruses may on occasion be the causative agents of severe, even fatal, myelitis, bulbomyelitis or encephalomyelitis, but they have been associated much more frequently with cases of "poliomyelitis" in which there has been slight to moderate paresis. In the aggregate, various "nonpolioviruses" have been encountered in approximately 10 per cent of the patients with clinical poliomyelitis studied, but it is uncertain how many of these cases may represent coincidental infections not causally related to the current illness.

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