Publications

[poliomyelitis in landsteiner's time and today].	at a meeting of the royal and imperial association of physicians in vienna on december 18, 1908 dr. karl landsteiner reported on the successful experimental transmission of poliomyelitis from man to ape in a study which he undertook together with erwin popper. in a scientific article that was published shortly after the meeting, landsteiner wrote that "the poliomyelitis virus belongs to the group of filterable micro-organisms". soon, landsteiner's results were confirmed by other colleagues. duri ...	1991	2031349
epidemiology of enterovirus types causing neurological disease in austria 1999-2007: detection of clusters of echovirus 30 and enterovirus 71 and analysis of prevalent genotypes.	between 1999 and 2007 1,388 stool specimens from patients with acute flaccid paralysis or aseptic meningitis were submitted to the austrian reference laboratory for poliomyelitis. samples (201) yielded non-poliovirus enterovirus in culture. one hundred eighty-one viruses were available for typing and 78 isolates which remained serologically untyped were further analyzed by codehop-pcr and sequencing of the vp1 gene and the 5'-untranslated region (5'-utr). typing revealed an echovirus 30 outbreak ...	2009	19107980