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I. Preliminary Clinical and Laboratory Findings Through the Neonatal Period: A Report From the Collaborative Study on Cerebral Palsy

JOHN L. SEVER, MD, PhD; KARIN B. NELSON, MD; MARY RUTH GILKESON, BS

Am J Dis Child. 1965;110(4):395-407.

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AN EXTENSIVE epidemic of rubella occurred throughout the United States during the first six months of 1964. This epidemic was monitored by 11 institutions participating in the prospective Collaborative Study of Cerebral Palsy. In addition to the detailed clinical data obtained for all pregnant patients and their children in the study, special protocols were instituted to provide detailed information on rubella. Serial serum specimens taken throughout pregnancies were subsequently tested for antibody to rubella.

The present paper presents a preliminary report of the clinical and laboratory findings available through the neonatal period.

Materials and Methods

I. General Study Information.—This report is based on the experience of 6,161 pregnant women who were under study during the period of January through June 1964. These women were registered at collaborating institutions, all of them university hospitals, of which seven are along the eastern seaboard and four at scattered points over the remainder . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BETHESDA, MD

From the Perinatal Research Branch, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness; the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; and the following collaborating institutions: Boston Lying-In Hospital; Brown University; Buffalo Children's Hospital; Charity Hospital, New Orleans; Johns Hopkins Hospital; Medical College of Virginia; Metropolitan Hospital at New York Medical College; Pennsylvania Hospital; the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; University of Minnesota; University of Oregon; and the University of Tennessee.

Footnotes
Received for publication July 13, 1965.

Collaborating authors are: Harold Abramson, MD; Heinz Berendes, MD; Edward Bishop, MD; William Clark, Jr., MD; Stewart H. Clifford, MD; James E. Drorbaugh, MD; Robert Fisch, MD; Janet Hardy, MD; Sheldon B. Korones, MD; Agnes L. Milan, MD; T. F. McNair Scott, MD; William Weiss, BA; Milton Westphal, MD; Fouad Yazbak, MD; and Anthony Zangara, MD.

Reprint requests to Section of Infectious Diseases, Perinatal Branch, National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Bethesda, Md 20014.

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