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II. SCARLET FEVER

CHARLES SHOOKHOFF, M.D.; LEO M. TARAN, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1931;42(3):554-568.

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There are many points of similarity between scarlet fever and rheumatic fever.

The streptococcus plays an important rôle in both diseases. G. F. Dick and G. H. Dick¹ showed that the streptococcus is the specific organism in scarlet fever. Since 1900, when Poynton and Paine² described the diplostreptococcus as the specific organism in rheumatic fever, many workers (Rosenow,³ Faber,₄ Swift and Kinsella⁵ and Small⁶) have described one or another strain of the streptococcus group as an etiologic agent in that disease.

Escherich and Schick⁷ and Swift⁸ suggested that many of the symptoms occurring in scarlet fever—adenopathy, recurrent angina, arthritis and simple endocarditis—are allergic in nature. Experimental studies by Swift and his co-workers,⁹ Mackie and McLachlan¹⁰ and Zinsser and Grinnel¹¹ seem to point to the fact that the allergic phenomena in scarlet fever are an expression of hypersensitivity to Streptococcus . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BROOKLYN

From the Cardiological Departments of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn and the Kingston Avenue Hospital for Contagious Diseases.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Jan. 21, 1931.

Read before the Meeting of the Clinical Society of the Kingston Avenue Hospital on Oct. 9, 1930.

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