RT Journal
T1 HEmolytic streptococci and the tonsils
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD May 3
VO 72
IS 18
SP 1295
OP 1296
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610180033011
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610180033011
AB Death following a variety of acute infections, like measles and scarlet fever, is at present believed to be due to a secondary invader, usually in the guise of a streptococcus, rather than to the primary etiologic agent. Numerous contributions to The Journal,6 not to mention other sources of information, have indicated that hemolytic streptococci are widely present in the pharyngeal passages of healthy persons as well as in diseased throats. The incidence of these microorganisms has been reported as high as 82 per cent, in companies of healthy men who have been in army camps for months. During epidemics of measles and of influenza, hemolytic streptococci have been found in some camps in practically all of the throats bacteriologically examined.The recent investigations of Pilot and Davis7 at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, following those of Nichols and Bryan8 at the Walter Reed General Hospital of