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Viruses associated with acute respiratory infections in Royal Air Force personnel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

P. G. Higgins ,
Eileen M. Ellis ,
D. A. Woolley  and
P. F. Cassidy
P. G. Higgins
Affiliation:
Virus Laboratory, Public Health Laboratory Service, 86 Dyer Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Eileen M. Ellis
Affiliation:
Virus Laboratory, Public Health Laboratory Service, 86 Dyer Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
D. A. Woolley
Affiliation:
Virus Laboratory, Public Health Laboratory Service, 86 Dyer Street, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
P. F. Cassidy
Affiliation:
Royal Air Force, South Cerney, Gloucestershire
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All respiratory illnesses which were reported to the medical officers between September 1966 and December 1967 on a Royal Air Force station of 350 men were studied virologically.

Three periods of increased respiratory infections were observed: two occurred in the autumn, one in each year, and the third in the winter during January and February. The autumnal outbreaks were associated mainly with rhinovirus infections, and high isolation rates (82·1, 65·9%) were achieved at these times. Few of the illnesses during the winter outbreak could be diagnosed in the laboratory, and no evidence was found of infection with ‘coronaviruses’.

Despite the entrance of 30 fresh recruits direct from civilian life every 5 weeks, the respiratory infections encountered on the station were very similar to those in the local population and were not predominantly infections with adenoviruses, Coevirus, and Mycoplasma pneumoniae, as previously reported from larger military recruit centres.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 68 , Issue 4 , December 1970 , pp. 647 - 654
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

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