RT Journal
A1 Fitzgerald JG, Robertson DE
T1 DIphtheric wound infections
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD July 12
VO 73
IS 2
SP 131
OP 132
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610280059023
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610280059023
AB To the Editor: 
    —In The Journal, Sept. 8, 1917, p. 791, we described an outbreak of wound diphtheria. This communication stimulated interest in the subject, and led to the publication of the results of several investigations notably those of Janes and Thomas (Canadian Medical Association Journal, May, 1919) and that of Adami and his collaborators (Bulletin of the Canadian Army Medical Corps, June, 1918).We investigated carefully a considerable number of cases of diphtheric wound infections in the spring of 1917, and carried out virulence tests and protection experiments on several of the strains of B. diphtheriae isolated at that time. No endeavor was made to determine the virulence of every strain isolated, nor was any attempt made to ascertain precisely the proportion of wound infections which were due to B. diphtheriae in all of the cases studied. We contented ourselves with pointing out that we had observed an epidemic