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3. The 1976 Influenza Epidemic in Melbourne

Author

Donaldson, A., Lewis, F. A., Kennett, M. L., White, J., and Gust, I. D.

Abstract

Some aspects of the 1976 influenza epidemic are described and compared with findings in previous years. Rapid diagnostic techniques gave encouraging results, but were less sensitive than conventional techniques. A higher rate of virus isolation was obtained from nasopharyngeal aspirates than from pooled nose and throat swabs.

Published
1927
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4. Enterovirus type 71 infection in Melbourne

Author

Kennett, M. L., Birch, C. J., Lewis, F. A., Yung, A. P., Locarnini, S. A., and Gust, I. D.

Subjects
Adult, Male, Adolescent, Australia, virus diseases, Infant, Meningitis, Viral, Enteroviruses, Child, Preschool, Enterovirus Infections, Humans, Female, Child, Enterovirus
Abstract

Between November 1972 and May 1973, 60 strains of a new enterovirus were isolated from 49 patients investigated at Fairfield Hospital for Communicable Diseases, Melbourne. Of these patients 39 were admitted to hospital with aseptic meningitis (which was accompanied by a rash in 6), 5 others had rash alone, 4 had acute respiratory tract infections, and 1 had infective polyneuritis. A representative strain from this outbreak had the physicochemical properties of an enterovirus but could not be identified with antisera prepared against the prototype polio, coxsackie, and echo viruses. Studies, performed in association with the WHO Collaborating Centre for Virus Reference and Research, Houston, TX, USA, showed the outbreak to be due to enterovirus 71. Most of the epidemic strains required sodium deoxycholate treatment before neutralization could be demonstrated.

Published
1974

8. Enterovirus type 71 infection in Melbourne.

Author

Kennett ML, Birch CJ, Lewis FA, Yung AP, Locarnini SA, and Gust ID

Subjects
Adolescent, Adult, Australia, Child, Child, Preschool, Enterovirus Infections microbiology, Female, Humans, Infant, Male, Meningitis, Viral etiology, Enterovirus isolation & purification, Enterovirus Infections etiology
Abstract

Between November 1972 and May 1973, 60 strains of a new enterovirus were isolated from 49 patients investigated at Fairfield Hospital for Communicable Diseases, Melbourne. Of these patients 39 were admitted to hospital with aseptic meningitis (which was accompanied by a rash in 6), 5 others had rash alone, 4 had acute respiratory tract infections, and 1 had infective polyneuritis. A representative strain from this outbreak had the physicochemical properties of an enterovirus but could not be identified with antisera prepared against the prototype polio, coxsackie, and echo viruses. Studies, performed in association with the WHO Collaborating Centre for Virus Reference and Research, Houston, TX, USA, showed the outbreak to be due to enterovirus 71. Most of the epidemic strains required sodium deoxycholate treatment before neutralization could be demonstrated.

Published
1974

9. An epidemic associated with echovirus type 18.

Author

Kennett ML, Ellis AW, Lewis FA, and Gust ID

Subjects
Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Antibodies analysis, Blood microbiology, Cells, Cultured, Cerebrospinal Fluid microbiology, Child, Child, Preschool, Culture Media, Culture Techniques, Enterovirus B, Human isolation & purification, Feces microbiology, Female, Fever microbiology, Hemagglutination, Humans, Immune Sera, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Male, Meningitis, Viral microbiology, Pharynx microbiology, Serotyping, Skin Manifestations, Disease Outbreaks, Echovirus Infections
Abstract

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.

Published
1972
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10. Hand, foot and mouth disease: an outbreak with interesting virological features.

Author

Ellis AW, Kennett ML, Lewis FA, and Gust ID

Subjects
Adolescent, Adult, Animals, Animals, Newborn, Cells, Cultured, Child, Preschool, Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral, Deoxycholic Acid, Enterovirus immunology, Female, Filtration, Guinea Pigs immunology, Haplorhini immunology, Horses immunology, Humans, Immunodiffusion, Infant, Kidney, Lung, Male, Mice, Neutralization Tests, Rabbits immunology, Coxsackievirus Infections microbiology, Disease Outbreaks, Enterovirus isolation & purification
Published
1973
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