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A BACTERIOLOGIC STUDY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE

ROSA LEE NEMIR, M.D.; ELIZABETH TORREY ANDREWS, M.D.; JULIA VINOGRAD, M.S.

Am J Dis Child. 1936;51(6):1277-1295.

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After Dochez and Gillespie's¹ differentiation of pneumococci in 1913, Wollstein and Benson² reported the bacteriologic findings in 50 infants and children with pneumonia. They isolated group IV pneumococci from 60 per cent and type I pneumococci from only 8 per cent of their patients. In a high percentage of cases of pneumonia in infants and children the condition was shown to be etiologically related to group IV pneumococci by many studies made prior to 1929, when group IV was further differentiated by Cooper³ and her co-workers. It is now possible to evaluate the various pneumococci from types IV to XXXII, formerly included as members of group IV. Observations concerning the epidemiology and clinical manifestations of the various pneumococci are shown in the charts and tables. We believe that the accurate classification of pneumococci is of more than academic interest.

The bacteriologic study of all patients with pneumonia . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the department of pediatrics, New York University College of Medicine, the Children's Medical Service, Bellevue Hospital, and the Bureau of Laboratories, Department of Health.

Footnotes
This investigation was made possible by a grant from the Commonwealth Fund to the New York University College of Medicine for research in pneumonia during 1931 to 1933. Assistance was also given during the first year by the Altman Foundation and during the last year by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

This study was made under the direction and advice of Dr. William H. Park, director of the Bureau of Laboratories, Department of Health, New York City, and Dr. Charles Hendee Smith, director of the Children's Medical Service, Bellevue Hospital and professor of pediatrics, New York University College of Medicine.

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