Absence of Infectivity in Filtered Urine from Diabetic Patients
| Autor: | Guilford B. Reed, G. Harold Ettinger |
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| Rok vydání: | 1928 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Infectious Diseases. 43:399-402 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6613 0022-1899 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/infdis/43.5.399 |
| Popis: | Among the many theories as to the causation of diabetes mellitus, one attributes the condition to infection. While no specific organism has been cited, many clinicians have pointed out the frequency of its association with known infections as appendicitis, tonsillitis, pancreatitis, cholecystitis, arthritis, malaria, influenza, syphilis, typhoid, etc. Gundersen 1 describes a wave of diabetes in young people following an epidemic of parotitis which occurred three or four years previously. He suggests that the two have the same etiological virus, which may cause an immediately fatal pancreatitis, or structural changes manifest later on as a diabetes. Labbe and Debre 2 describe a case in the latter group who responded favorably to dietetic treatment. Patrick 3 describes a case in which a girl of eight years died in diabetic coma three weeks after contracting mumps. Barach,4 on the other hand, in considering the previous illnesses of a group of 226 diabetics, finds a history of parotitis in very few cases, the most frequent previous infections being tonsillitis and typhoid. McLean 5 suggests that the onset of diabetes as a result of acute infection is due to a defect in the pancreas which is not revealed before this unusual strain. |
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