Taylor-Robinson D
Bull World Health Organ. 1965;32(6):833-47.
Over the past few years, many viruses have been isolated, particularly in the USA and Great Britain, from persons with respiratory disease. It is difficult to obtain suitable specimens from diverse areas of the world and test for viruses, but it is possible to obtain sera and test for antibodies. The present article reports the findings of an antibody survey of sera collected from 15 countries. The purpose of this survey was, first, to determine whether persons in these countries possessed antibodies against the "newer" respiratory viruses and therefore had been infected with these or related viruses, and, secondly, to look for quantitative differences in antibodies present in sera from different countries. A worldwide geographical distribution of antibodies was demonstrated which indicated a widespread distribution of those viruses considered in this study. Although it is widely believed that respiratory infections are less common and troublesome in hot or tropical regions, there was no evidence that sera obtained from countries with such climates contained less antibody than sera from countries with more temperate climates.
在过去几年中，特别是在美国和英国，已从患有呼吸道疾病的人身上分离出许多病毒。从世界不同地区获取合适的标本并检测病毒很困难，但获取血清并检测抗体是可行的。本文报告了对从15个国家收集的血清进行抗体调查的结果。这项调查的目的，首先是确定这些国家的人是否拥有针对“新型”呼吸道病毒的抗体，因此是否感染过这些病毒或相关病毒；其次是寻找不同国家血清中抗体的定量差异。结果显示了抗体在全球的地理分布，这表明本研究中所考虑的那些病毒分布广泛。尽管人们普遍认为呼吸道感染在炎热或热带地区不太常见且不太麻烦，但没有证据表明从这种气候的国家获得的血清所含抗体比来自气候更温和国家的血清少。
