Viremia and Viruria in Adenovirus Infections

Abstract

DURING attempts to define the etiology of rubella in naval recruits, adenoviruses were isolated from a considerable proportion of patients with this illness. In several these agents were demonstrated in the serum or urine or both — a finding not previously reported in studies of adenovirus disease. Although the viral origin of rubella has been established by several investigators who produced the disease in susceptible human subjects by inoculation of bacteria-free filtrates of respiratory secretions or blood from infected persons^{1 2 3} attempts to detect or propagate the virus by tissue-culture technics have been inconclusive.⁴ Thus, the diagnosis of rubella rests upon . . .