Abstract
Summary
Inoculation of 9 adult volunteers with a strain of Pett virus produced virus infection but no clinical disease. Although virus was recovered from throat specimens, isolations were more frequently obtained from anal specimens. Serologic rises developed in all men tested against a strain of virus isolated from a volunteer in this study whereas only 3 of 9 exhibited significant rises when tested against the prototype virus. The relative frequencies of positive rectal specimens among men infected with an inoculum prepared from a rectal isolate were significantly higher than those which occurred among men given an inoculum prepared from a throat isolate.
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