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Some Factors Influencing the Spread of Scarlet Fever in an Institution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

B. V. Keogh ,
Ian Macdonald ,
Joan Battle ,
E. T. Simons  and
Stanley Williams
B. V. Keogh
Affiliation:
From the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Melbourne
Ian Macdonald
Affiliation:
From the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Melbourne
Joan Battle
Affiliation:
From the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Melbourne
E. T. Simons
Affiliation:
From the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Melbourne
Stanley Williams
Affiliation:
From the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, Melbourne
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IN the admirable pioneer studies of Griffith and his colleagues on the epidemiology of streptococcal infections in schools, “no systematic attempt was made to discover the distribution of streptococci amongst the healthy residents. And the observations on carriers were in general confined to those who were suspected to have some catarrhal infection of the upper air passages” (Griffith, 1938). In this paper we report the results of weekly swabbings of the throats of all children in a single dormitory or ward of an orphanage with 350 inmates, during an outbreak of scarlet fever due to Streptococcus pyogenes, serologically type 2 (Griffith). All haemolytic streptococci were typed by the slide agglutination technique, so that fluctuations in the distribution of the epidemic and non-epidemic strains could be followed.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 39 , Issue 6 , November 1939 , pp. 664 - 673
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1939

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