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CHARACTERIZATION OF PNEUMONIA CAUSED BY PNEUMOCOCCUS TYPE III AND THAT ASSOCIATED WITH A BIOLOGICALLY CLOSELY RELATED ORGANISM, PNEUMOCOCCUS TYPE VIII

MAXWELL FINLAND, M.D.; W. D. SUTLIFF, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1934;53(4):481-507.

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The classification of pneumococci into serologically specific types¹ has rendered possible a thorough study of the distribution of these organisms in health and in disease. The investigation had its inception in relation to lobar pneumonia, but it soon became apparent that this clinical entity comprises a group of specific infectious diseases, alike in their clinical and anatomic manifestations but differing etiologically.² The significance of this distinction between the etiologic, as contrasted with the clinico-anatomic, classification has become increasingly important with the advent of serum therapy, which thus far has been shown to be strictly type specific in its action. Furthermore, this consciousness of the responsible bacterial incitant has indicated that the reverse is also true; that is, the same organism, belonging to the same serologic type, may give rise to different clinical pictures in different persons. The latter fact is not emphasized as frequently as the former, because . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON; CHICAGO

From the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth Medical Services (Harvard), Boston City Hospital, and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

Footnotes
This study was aided, in part, by a grant given in honor of Dr. Francis Weld Peabody by the Ella Sachs Plotz Foundation.

Read before the Section on Pathology and Physiology at the Eighty-Fourth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Milwaukee, June 15, 1933.

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