TABLE 1.
Exptl group | No. of mice with paralysis
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Left lower extremity | Right lower extremity | Paraparesis | Upper extremities | |
I | 1 | 0 | 13 | 2 |
II | 0 | 2 | 13 | 1 |
III | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
IV | 0 | 1 | 15 | 0 |
Members of groups of experimental animals comprising 16 mice each were infected by the intravenous route with 5 × 106 PFU of PV1(M). They were treated according to the experimental protocol outlined in the legend to Fig. 2 and observed clinically twice daily, and it was recorded which limb showed initial signs of weakness.