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HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS SORE THROATDETAILED STUDY OF THE SIMULTANEOUS INFECTION OF A LARGE NUMBER OF MEN BY A SINGLE TYPE
LOWELL A. RANTZ, M.D.;
WESLEY W. SPINK, M.D.;
PAUL J. BOISVERT, M.D.
Arch Intern Med. 1945;76(5):278-283.
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Clinicians interested in infectious disease are aware that the exposure of a group of human beings or animals to an infectious agent will be followed by the development of clinical syndromes of varying degrees of severity. It is rarely possible to describe these phenomena in detail in human beings, since artificial inoculation is infrequently performed and since natural infection is usually unsuitable because the size of the infecting dose and the strain of microorganism may be expected to vary from case to case. These difficulties are particularly evident in the study of group A hemolytic streptococcus infections, since many serologic types are known to occur among these organisms.
One of us has previously described1 certain clinical and immunologic aspects of the disease resulting from the simultaneous infection of a large group of men by a single type of hemolytic streptococcus. Clinical observations in that epidemic were incomplete. Recently another
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Author Affiliations
SAN FRANCISCO MINNEAPOLIS NEW HAVEN, CONN.
Footnotes
The laboratories of the Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, were made available to the commission for certain studies.
This investigation was carried out during a field study by the Commission on Hemolytic Streptococcal Infections, Board for the Investigation and Control of Influenza and Other Epidemic Diseases in the Army, Preventive Medicine Service, Office of the Surgeon General, United States Army.
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