Once a Typhoid Carrier, Always a Typhoid Carrier

Autor:	Edith A. Beckler, Stanley H. Osborn
Rok vydání:	1920
Předmět:	Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Public health bacterial infections and mycoses medicine.disease complex mixtures Typhoid fever Typhoid bacillus Typhoid carrier Infectious Diseases Immunology and Allergy Medicine business Enteric fever
Zdroj:	Journal of Infectious Diseases. 27:145-150
ISSN:	1537-6613 0022-1899
DOI:	10.1093/infdis/27.2.145
Popis:	The part played in the incidence of typhoid fever in Massachusetts by typhoid bacilli carriers is unknown, but the number of typhoid bacilli carriers found each year is increasing, although typhoid cases reported annually in the state are decreasing in number. The axiom of "once a carrier, always a carrier,,, is a good one for health officials to stand by. A series of negative fecal and urinary examinations for the typhoid bacillus should mean nothing to a board of health who are safeguarding the public health, if typhoid bacilli have been found in the excreta of a person three months or more after having had typhoid fever. It is true that occasionally the removal of a gallbladder results in negative findings. However, the mere fact that it is not true in all instances indicates that there is a chance that the
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