TY  - JOUR
T1  - A report of sixty cases of wound diphtheria
AU  - HARTSELL JA, MORRIS ML
Y1  - 1919/05/10
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610190013005
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1351
EP  - 1353
VL  - 72
IS  - 19
N2  - I. CLINICAL 
    By Lieutenant HartsellIn reporting these cases of wound diphtheria it is necessary, first, to say a word about throat diphtheria occurring in our hospital. During the fall and early winter, throat diphtheria appeared; and while it never approached a real epidemic, its incidence was greater than would be expected in a hospital community. Our hospital during this time furnished more cases than any other unit, and some weeks furnished about two thirds of all the cases in a center of from eight to twelve hospital units. In our hospital, Ward A-1 furnished most of the cases. The first case of throat diphtheria appeared in Ward A-1, Oct. 14, 1918. Up to November 15, five other cases of throat diphtheria appeared. November 16, a general throat culture of the entire ward disclosed five carriers. In December, five clinical diphtherias and four carriers were found. January 2, another carrier
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610190013005
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610190013005
ER  -