EPIDEMIC OF PHARYNGITIS DUE TO STREPTOCOCCI OF LANCEFIELD GROUP G
| Autor: | Dorothy Hager, Harry R. Hill, Elizabeth Wilson, GlynG Caldwell, RobertA Zimmerman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1969 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Food handlers Exudative pharyngitis Penicillins Food handling Disease Outbreaks Foodborne Diseases Lymphadenitis Streptococcal Infections Internal medicine Epidemiology medicine Humans Serotyping School Health Services business.industry Transmission (medicine) Streptococcus Antistreptolysin Outbreak Pharyngitis General Medicine United States Erythromycin Carrier State Immunology Pharynx medicine.symptom Epidemiologic Methods business |
| Zdroj: | The Lancet. 294:371-374 |
| ISSN: | 0140-6736 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/s0140-6736(69)92713-5 |
| Popis: | An epidemic of pharyngitis due to a virulent strain of group-G streptococci at a college in October, 1968, is described. The attack-rate for clinical pharyngitis among the 502 members of the student body was 31%. The symptoms and predominant physical findings were similar to those produced by group-A streptococcal respiratory-tract infections and included the development of exudative pharyngitis in a significant number of the ill students. An epidemiological investigation indicated that the outbreak was food-borne and incriminated an egg salad as the vehicle of transmission. Despite a high treatment-failure rate and the development of significant antistreptolysin 0 responses in many of the ill students, no sequelae similar to those produced by group-A streptococci were detected. |
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