FURTHER STUDIES ON SEROLOGICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF COE VIRUS INFECTION

Abstract

In a previous publication (Fukumiet al., 1961), it was reported from sero-epidemiological findings that recruits' camps in Self Defense Forces might be playing an important role as infectious foci of Coe virus infection in Japan. But, in civilian populations also, Coe virus antibody is found in a comparable proportion and this proportion seems to become higher as the age increases. Pereira and Pereira (1959) reported the results of age-specific antibody positive rate of Coe Virus in some population in England, though the object of their serological survey was not difinitely described; the rate was clearly domonstrated therein to rise with age and be saturated at about fifty years of age. In the present publication, prevalence of Coe virus infection in the civilian and the Self Defense Forces lives will be described and discussed.