Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

THE ETIOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS OF PNEUMONIA IN CHILDREN BY RAPID TYPING OF NASAL CULTURES

THE ETIOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS OF PNEUMONIA IN CHILDREN BY RAPID TYPING OF NASAL CULTURES Advances in the treatment of pneumonia both with serum and with drugs have increased the importance of the etiologic diagnosis. In children, attempts to circumvent delay due to lack of sputum by obtaining tracheal specimens have been made by Bullowa1 and by Krahulik, Rudomanski and Cunningham.2 Beebe,3 Kneeland4 and Webster and Hughes5 reported that in respiratory infections in children the respiratory pathogens, e. g. pneumococcus, influenza bacillus and hemolytic streptococcus, appear in cultures from the nasal passages. In the middle fossae of the nose in cases of lobar pneumonia, Felty and Heatley6 described the presence of pneumococci which corresponded to the type found in the sputum. Baker7 found that in early pneumonia in children the highly parasitic pneumococcus type I could be quickly recovered from nasal swabs through mouse inoculation. These observations led us to explore the possibility of rapid typing of pneumonia http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JAMA American Medical Association

THE ETIOLOGIC DIAGNOSIS OF PNEUMONIA IN CHILDREN BY RAPID TYPING OF NASAL CULTURES

POOLE, FRANKLIN D.; FOUSEK, MILDRED D.
JAMA , Volume 113 (21) – Nov 18, 1939
Download PDF
4 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/american-medical-association/the-etiologic-diagnosis-of-pneumonia-in-children-by-rapid-typing-of-0IScAZjpq4

References (3)

Publisher
American Medical Association
Copyright
Copyright © 1939 American Medical Association. All Rights Reserved. Applicable FARS/DFARS Restrictions Apply to Government Use.
ISSN
0098-7484
eISSN
1538-3598
DOI
10.1001/jama.1939.02800460008002
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Advances in the treatment of pneumonia both with serum and with drugs have increased the importance of the etiologic diagnosis. In children, attempts to circumvent delay due to lack of sputum by obtaining tracheal specimens have been made by Bullowa1 and by Krahulik, Rudomanski and Cunningham.2 Beebe,3 Kneeland4 and Webster and Hughes5 reported that in respiratory infections in children the respiratory pathogens, e. g. pneumococcus, influenza bacillus and hemolytic streptococcus, appear in cultures from the nasal passages. In the middle fossae of the nose in cases of lobar pneumonia, Felty and Heatley6 described the presence of pneumococci which corresponded to the type found in the sputum. Baker7 found that in early pneumonia in children the highly parasitic pneumococcus type I could be quickly recovered from nasal swabs through mouse inoculation. These observations led us to explore the possibility of rapid typing of pneumonia

Journal

JAMA – American Medical Association

Published: Nov 18, 1939

There are no references for this article.