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BERNICE EDDY, PH.D.; A. GRAEME MITCHELL, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1930;40(5):985-987.

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According to Bessau, Schwenke and Pringsheim,¹ Renault and Levy,² Lereboullet, Marie and Brizard,³ there is no change in the Schick test during the course of measles. Moshage and Kolmer⁴ deduced from studies with the Schick test that there was an increased susceptibility to diphtheria in persons suffering from scarlet fever. Zingher⁵ found twice as many positive reactions to the Schick test in patients with scarlet fever as in normal persons and three times as many in patients with poliomyelitis; he also noted that patients with measles had a somewhat increased number of positive reactions as compared to a normal group. Zingher did not believe that this was a temporary effect caused by these diseases, as some of his patients who had a positive reaction to the Schick test during the acute stage of a disease, had positive reactions when tested as late as the sixth . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CINCINNATI

From the B. K. Rachford Department of Pediatrics of the College of Medicine of the University of Cincinnati.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, April 19, 1930.

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