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Rhinovirus Infections in an Industrial Population — The Occurrence of Illness

List of authors.
  • Jack M. Gwaltney, Jr., M.D.†,
  • J. Owen Hendley, M.D.‡,
  • Gilbert Simon, M.D.§,
  • and William S. Jordan, Jr., M.D.

RHINOVIRUSES have been associated with 10 to 30 per cent of acute upper respiratory illnesses in several groups of adults.1 2 3 4 5 6 In March, 1963, a study was undertaken to define the etiology and epidemiology of acute respiratory disease in a population of working adults, and the role of a number of viruses was studied initially. Coincident with the beginning of the investigation, improvements in technology occurred that facilitated the isolation of rhinoviruses and shifted emphasis to these agents. During the first three years of the study, the period considered in this report, approximately a quarter of the acute respiratory illnesses were . . .

Funding and Disclosures

* From the departments of Preventive Medicine and Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Conducted under the sponsorship of the Commission on Acute Respiratory Diseases, Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, and supported in part by the Office of The Surgeon General, Department of the Army, and in part by the Vaccine Development Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health.

We are indebted to Dr. John W. Frisch, medical director of State Farm Insurance Companies, Dr. John R. Morris and Mrs. Anne Campbell. R.N., Medical Department of the Eastern Regional Office, and to the employees for support and cooperation, to Mrs. Robert W. Hooker. R.N., Mrs. J. A. Stewart and Dr. Phillip Allen for assistance with the epidemiologic and statistical portions of this investigation and to Mesdames Dianne Shott. Nancy Hutcheson and Karen Huey and Misses Frances Mnlford. Bettv Carlton, and Jean Lynn for technical assistance.

Author Affiliations

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA

†Assistant professor of preventive medicine and internal medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine; Edward Livingston Trudeau Fellow, American Thoracic Society.

‡Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, United States Public Health Service; Research Fellow in Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine.

§Formerly, Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, United States Public Health Service, and research fellow in preventive medicine and pediatrics, University of Virginia School of Medicine (present address, Babies Hospital, Columbia–Presbyterian Hospital, New York City).

¶Professor and chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine, and professor of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine.

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