A Comparison of Clinical Findings in Fifty Cases of Non-Paralytic Poliomyelitis With Two Outbreaks of Acute Infective Encephalitis, Which Were Not Due to Acute Poliomyelitis

Cameron, Donald (1957) A Comparison of Clinical Findings in Fifty Cases of Non-Paralytic Poliomyelitis With Two Outbreaks of Acute Infective Encephalitis, Which Were Not Due to Acute Poliomyelitis. MD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

The occurrence of two epidemics of benign infective virus encephalitis in 1955 and 1956, in the Cambridge area, has been described and compared with a series of cases of non-paralytic poliomyelitis. It was not found possible to establish a differential diagnosis in individual cases as a result of clinical findings alone, but a study of the epidemiological pattern was of considerable help in the differentiation of the three main groups of cases described. Virus investigations proved that the Bourn epidemic was due to Type 9 of the E.C.H.O. group of viruses. This virus work was carried out by Dr. Donald M. McLean, at that time Harrison Watson Student, Clare College, Cambridge. Poliomyelitis virus investigations of the Bishop's Stortford cases were done by members of the Regional Public Health Laboratory, Cambridge. The cases on which the findings in this thesis are based were admitted to Brookfields Hospital, Cambridge, the infectious diseases unit of the United Cambridge Hospitals, of which I am Physician-in-Charge. A list of references is appended. It is submitted that epidemics of acute infective encephalitis are becoming increasingly prevalent in recent years. In some instances these occur simultaneously with cases of acute poliomyelitis.

• Item Type: Thesis (MD)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Keywords: Medicine, Epidemiology
• Date of Award: 1957
• Depositing User: Enlighten Team
• Unique ID: glathesis:1957-79190
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 31 Mar 2020 09:09
• Last Modified: 31 Mar 2020 09:09
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/79190