Whiteside, Roberta Emerson2015-04-272015-04-2719551955b14798736https://hdl.handle.net/2144/11211Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityA quantitative study of the survival of the virus of poliomyelitis at varying temperatures has been carried out. Throughout these experiments, the MEF1 strain of poliomyelitis virus was used. This was a mouse adapted strain which had been carried through a total of 115 passages in the mouse since its adaptation to rodents by Schlesinger, Morgan and Olitsky (Science, 452-454, 1943). [TRUNCATED]en-USBased on investigation of the BU Libraries' staff, this work is free of known copyright restrictions.Thesis/Dissertation