Accession Number:

AD0753434

Title:

Pathology of Exfoliated Oropharyngeal Epithelial Cells Infected with Wild-Type Adenovirus

Descriptive Note:

Medical research progress rept. no. 12,

Corporate Author:

NAVAL MEDICAL FIELD RESEARCH LAB CAMP LEJEUNE NC

Personal Author(s):

• McCormick, David P.
• Galapon, Quirino
• Berling, Carl

Report Date:

1972-06-02

Pagination or Media Count:

13.0

Abstract:

Adenovirus disease was diagnosed in 2 hr by staining exfoliated infected oropharyngeal cells with fluorescein-tagged rabbit antisera to adenovirus types 4 and 7. The method was as sensitive as the standard virus isolation procedures, but serological cross reactions were observed. Viral antigens were detected in both the nucleus and cytoplasm of infected cells. Infection was accompanied by the outpouring of large numbers of polymorphonuclear leukocytes and smaller numbers of mononuclear cells. The method provides a model for the study of the cellular response to viral upper respiratory disease.

Descriptors:

• *RESPIRATORY DISEASES
• *FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUES
• REPRINTS
• ANTIBODIES
• PATHOLOGY
• INFECTIOUS DISEASES
• VIRUS DISEASES
• THROAT
• CELLS(BIOLOGY)
• ANTIGENS
• ADENOVIRUSES
• SERODIAGNOSIS

Subject Categories:

• Microbiology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE