Enterovirus infection was the most common cause of viral meningitis in immunocompetent adults in this study. White blood cell counts and protein levels were significantly higher in CSF samples from patients infected with HSV type 2 than in samples from patients with enterovirus infection. Zoster rash often occurs after meningitis. PCR testing provides a rapid and specific etiological diagnosis.

The exact role of TNF-alpha and IL-1 in adhesion formation is still unknown, but the results from this study suggest that their concentration in the peritoneal fluid is associated with the degree of adhesions present.

SUMMARYMixed infections of secondary rhesus monkey kidney cells with human rotaviruses carrying rearranged genomes and with bovine rotavirus yielded a high percentage of reassortants. The genotypes of 511 plaque-purified clones raised in either MA104 or BSC-1 cells have been determined and the frequencies of different genotypes have been calculated. It was found that (i) reassortants did not emerge at random; (ii) there was non-random association of certain genes; (iii) the cell line used to isolate reassortants influenced the result, i.e. host cell factors had a selective effect on a recombinational mixture.