Clinical and Laboratory Studies of Mumps

IN previous studies1 , 2 of patients with mumps viruria has been detected as early as the first day and as late as the fifteenth day of illness. In one2 of these studies 72 per cent of the urine specimens collected during the first five days of illness were culturally positive. These observations suggested the possibility of renal involvement in mumps and prompted a prospective study of renal function and viral cultures of the urine in patients. The results of that study form the basis of this report.Patients and MethodsPatientsAll patients were young-adult Navy servicemen consecutively admitted with mumps . . .