The bacteria in scarlatinal and normal throats / Gustav F. Ruediger.

  • Ruediger, Gustav F.
Date:
1906
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    THE BACTESlA^* *ri^'^CAELATINAL AND NOR- \ tm^THEftATS.* GUSTAV F. RUEDIGER, M.D. CHICAGO. INTRODUCTION. It is a well established fact that streptococci are con- stantly found in great abundance on the tonsils of scarlet fever patients. This was shown very clearly by the in- vestigations of Weaver, Baginsky and Sommerfeld, Charlton, Charbade, Booker, Taugl, Klein, Kurth and others. It is also well known that these organisms are frequently found on the tonsils of healthy persons, al- though not in such great abundance as on the tonsils of scarlet fever patients. Hilbert, Tunnicliff, Dungern, Schweighofer and Wida] and Bezancon state that they found them in all normal throats which they examined. Others, however, did not find them so constantly. Black found them on only 30 per cent, of the normal tonsils which he examined. Ketter found them in 5.5 per cent..; Kurth in 8 per cent.; Podbielsky in 2 per cent, and Dorn- berger in 45 per cent, of the normal throats examined by them. In most of these investigations no detailed study was made of the streptococci that were found. In some investigations glucose-broth tubes were inoculated with material from the tonsils, and if cocci were found in chains after incubation of the tubes it was concluded that streptococci were present. Apparently no further study was made of the cultures. In consideration of this fact it was thought worth while to take up this question again and make a more detailed study of the different strains of streptococci and diplococci which may be isolated from scarlatinal and normal throats. • Read in the Section on Pathology and Physiology of the American Mt dical Association, at the P^ifty-seventh Annual Session. .Tune, 1906. * This article Is from the Memorial Institute for Infectious Dis- eases and describes work which was aided b.v a grant from the American Medical Association.