TY - JOUR
AU - Pierce, Willard E.
AB - J. THOMAS GRAYSTON,* ROBERT L. WOOLRIDGE,t CLAYTON G. LOOSLI,* BENJAMIN F. GUNDELFINGER,t PAUL B. JOHNSTON,* AND WILLARD E. PIERCEt From the Department of Medicine, the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, and the United States Naval Medical Research Unit No.4, U. S. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois A number of reports have appeared were associated with adenovirus infec­ tion. concerning the frequency of adenovirus infections in military recruits suffering During the time period from October from upper respiratory tract illness.':" 20, 1955, to October 19, 1956, a con­ Some have emphasized the association tinuous systematic survey for acut€ of adenovirus isolations with illness and respiratory disease was conducted on the failure to isolate adenovirus from recruit companies at Great Lakes that well men.v" However, studies of anti­ were representative of the entire recruit body response in groups of military re­ population in respect to stage of train­ ing. Recruits were selected at random cruits have shown that roughly half of the men developing significant rises in from these surveyed companies for virus isolation and serological studies. the complement fixation test for adeno­ virus do not seek treatment for upper The men were on duty at the time of respiratory 
TI - Adenovirus Infections in Naval Recruits
JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1093/infdis/104.1.61
DA - 1959-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/adenovirus-infections-in-naval-recruits-pMgEbNHcWc
SP - 61
EP - 70
VL - 104
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -