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A BACTERIOLOGIC STUDY OF SIXTY-FOUR CASES

EDWARD C. ROSENOW, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1939;64(6):1197-1221.

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It is the purpose of this paper to describe the methods used and to record the results obtained in a study made in July 1937 of 64 cases (in most of which the patients were nurses) of a strange recurring infection, well designated, according to the tissues chiefly affected, as encephalomeningoradiculitis and fibromyositis.

In most instances the illness began during an epidemic of poliomyelitis in 1934; in others it began during lesser outbreaks in 1935 and 1936. Acute anterior poliomyelitis was the original diagnosis in most of the cases. The original attack, although usually atypical,¹ was probably referable to the virus of poliomyelitis as well as to the streptococcus.² The virus was demonstrated in the nasopharynges of ill persons by Paul, Trask and Webster³ and in the spinal cord at autopsy by Kessel, Hoyt and Fisk⁴ as well as Rosenow, Heilman and Pettet.⁵ Streptococci were isolated consistently from the nasopharynx, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ROCHESTER, MINN.

From the Division of Experimental Bacteriology, the Mayo Foundation.

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