Chloramphenicol in Infantile Gastro-enteritis

Rogers, Kandace; Koegler, S. J.; Gerrard, J. W.

doi:10.1136/bmj.2.4643.1501

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“…These control infants were taken from a number of different environments, and the results are based on single examinations of different infants. (1949) and Rogers et al (1949) cannot be tabulated in the same way, but both confirm the frequent association between a specific serological type of Bact. coli and infantile diarrhoea and vomiting.…”

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Specific Serological Type of Bact. Coli Found in Infants' Home in Absence of Epidemic Diarrhoea

Payne¹,

Cook²

1950

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Specific Serological Type of Bact. Coli Found in Infants' Home in Absence of Epidemic Diarrhoea

Payne¹,

Cook²

1950

BMJ

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“…coli. This case was described by Rogers et al (1949 Spread of infantile gastro-enteritis in the ward were swabbed, eight were found to have the a-type of Bact. coli in their faeces.…”

Section: Inter-ward Cross-infection At the Birmingham Children's Hospmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Of recent years the strain of Bacterium coli described by Bray (1945), Giles & Sangster (1948), Taylor, Powell & Wright (1949), Smith (1949) and Rogers, Koegler & Gerrard (1949), has been found to be intimately associated with epidemic infantile gastro-enteritis.…”

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The spread of infantile gastro-enteritis in a cubicled ward

Rogers

1951

Epidemiol. Infect.

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The type strains ofBact. coli, described by Bray (1945), Giles & Sangster (1948), Gileset al.(1949), Tayloret al.(1949), Smith (1949) and Rogers (1951b), because of their very intimate association with epidemic infantile gastro-enteritis, have been used as indicator organisms to show that the method of cross-infection of epidemic gastro-enteritis is very like that of the cross-infection of burns.It has been shown how a cubicle becomes widely contaminated within 18 hr. and that type strains ofBact. coliwill remain viable in dust for at least 27 days. Communal articles used throughout a ward are blamed for the inter-cubicle spread in a divided ward.The intimate association of the α- and β-types ofBact. coliwith outbreaks of gastro-enteritis is demonstrated, and figures are given to show how these outbreaks prolong the patient's stay in hospital and waste valuable hospital space.

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“…As in the first epidemic, a child carrying the a-type of Bact. coli was seen in the outpatient department of the Birmingham Children's Hospital, where it was a potential danger to other children, since some infants are thought to have been infected in this department (Rogers, 1951 a, b).…”

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Inter-hospital cross-infection of epidemic infantile gastro-enteritis associated with type strains of Bacterium coli

Rogers

Koegler

1951

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Evidence of how epidemics of infantile gastro-enteritis can spread from one hospital to at least three other hospitals has been presented. Three such outbreaks are described, in two of which the α-type of Bact. coli, and in one the β-type of Bact. coli, were associated with the cases of enteritis.It is suggested that in hospitals which admit infants routine examination of the infants' faeces should be made to identify these types of Bact. coli, and that institutional epidemics of gastro-enteritis should be notified to a central bureau together with the cultural findings, so that the pooled knowledge could be redistributed to paediatric centres.The aetiological relationship between infantile gastro-enteritis and these type strains of Bact. coli is briefly discussed.

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Chloramphenicol in Infantile Gastro-enteritis

Cited by 42 publications

References 6 publications

Specific Serological Type of Bact. Coli Found in Infants' Home in Absence of Epidemic Diarrhoea

Specific Serological Type of Bact. Coli Found in Infants' Home in Absence of Epidemic Diarrhoea

The spread of infantile gastro-enteritis in a cubicled ward

Inter-hospital cross-infection of epidemic infantile gastro-enteritis associated with type strains of Bacterium coli

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