Nutrition and Poliomyelitis. The Effects of Deficiencies of Phosphorus, Calcium, and Vitamin D on the Response of Mice to the Lansing Strain of Poliomyelitis Virus

Abstract

Thelier's virus to an extent comparable to the protection given by a deficiency of vitamin B i against the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus. A deficiency of calcium, on the other hand, gave no protection. At the time the studies mentioned above were published, the present authors had completed a study (first series) on the effect of a deficiency of phosphorus on the resistance of mice to the Lansing strain of the virus of poliomyelitis. The diet was also deficient in vitamin D, and to the lowphosphorus diets of some of the groups of animals bervllium carbonate was From the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Department of Pediatrics) and the Department of Physiological Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania