SummaryAttempts to isolate a filtrable infectious agent from adult patients with epidemic diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting were unsuccessful. We were unable to duplicate the results of Light and Hodes. Perhaps the virus had disappeared during preservation of the frozen stools, or was never present in the stools, or insufficient amounts of inoculum were used, or the disease in adults with which we dealt is different from that in the newborn.
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Reimann et al. (1944) studied this question.