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. 1910 Mar 14;12(2):227–255. doi: 10.1084/jem.12.2.227

EXPERIMENTAL EPIDEMIC POLIOMYELITIS IN MONKEYS

Simon Flexner 1, Paul A Lewis 1
PMCID: PMC2124782  PMID: 19867324

Abstract

The experimental study of poliomyelitis has yielded a large number of important facts relating to the spontaneous disease in man. The nature of the virus has been discovered, many of its properties have been ascertained, some of its immunity effects have been established, the clinical and pathological peculiarities of the disease have been elucidated, and a basis has been secured on which to develop measures of prevention.

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