Population
Infants under 1 year of age with acute poliomyelitis in New York City in 1949 and 1950.
Design
Cohort
Authors
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High fatality in infants under 3 months with polio warrants vigilance where endemic; leaves open age- and sex-specific susceptibility mechanisms.
This historical cohort study characterizes the clinical and epidemiological features of poliomyelitis in infants under 1 year, highlighting high fatality and a dominance of paralytic forms in this age group.
Abramson et al. (1955) studied this question.
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