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CAUSED BY THE FRIEDLÄNDER BACILLUS

H. C. SWEANY, M.D.; ASYA STADNICHENKO, A.B.; KARL J. HENRICHSEN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1931;47(4):565-582.

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Acute pulmonary infections caused by the Friedländer bacillus group have been known since 1882 and 1883, when Friedländer¹ described the micro-organism and attributed to it the cause of pneumonia. After several years of controversy by various investigators, Fraenkel² in 1886 described the pneumococcus as the cause of pneumonia and assigned the Friedländer bacillus to the rôle of a secondary invader. So convincing was Fraenkel's work that many physicians accepted it without qualification. However, soon afterward, in 1886, Weichselbaum³ showed that the bacillus of Friedländer caused 5.5 per cent of the cases in a series of more than 100 patients. It was nearly ten years before valid confirmation of this work was produced by others, although many believed in it.

Some of the most acceptable reports were given by Étienne,⁴ 1895; Comba,⁵ 1896; Smith,⁶ 1897; Thiroloix,⁷ 1897; Howard,⁸ 1898; Béco,⁹ 1899; Moïsejew,¹⁰ 1900; Brinckerhoff and Thompson,¹¹ 1901; Kokawa,¹² 1904; Stühlern,¹³ 1904; . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Research Laboratories of the Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium.

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Submitted for publication, Sept. 8, 1930.

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