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WITH A REPORT OF THREE CASES

KATHARINE DODD, M.D.; HOMER SWANSON, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1938;56(5):1082-1085.

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In the classic description of bacillary dysentery found in the textbooks on bacteriology and pathology, the statement is usually made that bacteremia due to Bacillus dysenteriae does not occur. As late as 1936, Topley and Wilson¹ made this statement concerning B. dysenteriae: "This organism, unlike Bacillus typhosus, does not invade the blood stream and cannot therefore be cultured from the blood." However, Rothman² reviewed the literature on this subject in 1936 and discovered that antemortem bacteremia due to B. dysenteriae has been found and reported in 16 cases. He added an additional case of his own. The organism has also been cultured at autopsy from the blood, the liver and the spleen and in several instances from the mesenteric lymph nodes.

Many investigators have undertaken to secure routine blood cultures in cases of bacillary dysentery. Duval³ reported 43 cases of Shiga dysentery with negative blood cultures, but . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NASHVILLE, TENN.

From the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Pathology of the Vanderbilt University Hospital.

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