Isolation of Vaccinia Virus and Type 1 Adenovirus from Urine

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  • IGIon Gresser
    Ion Gresser
  • SKSidney Kibrick
    Sidney Kibrick
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Abstract
IT has recently become apparent that viruria is not uncommon in some viral illnesses.1 We report here the isolation of vaccinia virus from the urine of a twenty-three-year-old woman with eczema vaccinatum, thus confirming the only previous report of probable vaccinia viruria.2 Additional attempts to demonstrate vaccinia virus in the urine collected four to fourteen days after primary smallpox vaccination of 4 children were unsuccessful. A Type 1 adenovirus, however, was recovered from the urine of 1 child. To our knowledge this agent has not previously been recovered from urine.MethodsThe methods of processing urine specimens have previously been . . .