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A Report of One Hundred Seventeen Cases

HERMAN GOLD, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1955;96(3):387-396.

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Since 1933, I have had the opportunity to study 117 cases of anthrax, 116 of which were of the external or cutaneous type and 1, of the internal, or pulmonary, variety. In all cases, the clinical diagnosis was confirmed bacteriologically by means of suitable smears and cultures performed at the Chester Hospital by Dr. G. B. Sickel. As reported in a previous communication,¹ virulence tests done on guinea pigs, rabbits, and sheep with anthrax bacilli recovered from some of the cases revealed them to be highly virulent strains.

CUTANEOUS ANTHRAX

In this series, one patient, the very first case, died, giving a mortality rate of 0.8%. The subsequent 115 cases recovered without any sequelae. One hundred four originated in a local mill that uses goat hair in the manufacture of interlining for men's coats. The hair is imported from the Orient (China, India, Pakistan) and North Africa (Morocco) in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Chester, Pa.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 13, 1955.

Read before the Section on Internal Medicine at the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Medical Association, Atlantic City, June 10, 1955.

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