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E. BRUCE BROOKS, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1933;46(6):1338-1342.

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The relation which cats bear to the transmission of diphtheria has been questioned for many years. Reports by Low,¹ Jewett,² Barras,³ Porter,⁴ Simmons,⁵ Gwynn,⁶ Osborne,⁷ Symes,⁸ Turner⁹ and Priestley,¹⁰ as well as several editorials¹¹ in medical journals, lend support to the belief that cats are capable of spreading the disease.

Investigations by Simmons,⁵ Klein,¹² Renshaw,¹³ Welch and Abbott,¹⁴ Remlinger¹⁵ and Karlinski¹⁶ (quoted by Wharton¹⁷) tend to indicate that cats can contract and spread diphtheria. The most recent work, however, that reported by Savage¹⁸ in 1920, contradicts these early experiments.

EXPERIMENTS

Schick Test.—The Schick test was done on thirty-nine kittens and thirty-one cats, twice the concentration of the adult Schick dosage being used. The results in all the animals were negative after twenty-four, forty-eight and ninety-six hours.

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Author Affiliations
DURHAM, N. C.

From the Biological Division, Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine.

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