The Etiology of an Epidemic of Enteritis Associated With Mastoiditis in Infants

Dick, George F.; Williams, John L.

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“…M., a white man, aged 57, 5 feet 4 inches in height (163 cm. ), admitted to the Employees Hospital, Nov. 1,1934, stated that about one hour before admission he stepped into a hole about knee deep, at the bottom of which was a rotating sifting metal basket, similar to a rotating wheel. His foot was caught in the rotating basket and was twisted around, causing a severe injury to his left knee.…”

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Dislocations of the Knee Joint

Conwell¹,

Alldredge²

1936

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Dislocations of the Knee Joint

Conwell¹,

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1936

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“…STOOL CULTURES Dick, Dick and Williams,8 studying an epidemic of enteritis in infants in which the mortality was 30.7 per cent, found that postmortem material from early cases showed B. coli and green-producing streptococci in the blood streams and in the pus from the mastoids. They also found green-producing streptococci predominating in the throat cultures of ill and well infants and believed that the streptococci isolated from the mastoids were similar to those found in the throats of the ill and well infants.…”

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Ii. Clinical Studies on Forty-Six Patients With Acute Enteritis; Necropsy Studies

Cooper¹,

Keller²,

Johnson³

1934

Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med

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The many studies of the bacteriology of acute enteritis in infants and children have failed to agree on any single microbic etiologic factor. The majority, however, have incriminated various members of the B. dysenteriae group, mainly on the basis of their presence in the stools of such patients. This in itself is not a sufficient criterion for such a deduction. In common with others, we have isolated organisms of the dysenteriae group from the stools of normal infants and young children or of subjects with conditions other than enteritis.The present report details clinical and certain bacteriologic data on a series of forty-six patients with acute enteritis who were studied during the fall of 1931. There was no selection of cases. Cultures were made as soon as possible after admission and in some instances at necropsy. Reference should be made to the first part of this article and to those parts that follow in this issue.Clinical Description of Patients.\p=m-\Intable 7 is given a summary of such factors as age, infection of the upper respiratory tract and mor¬ tality. The patients were acutely ill. In the majority enteritis had developed two or three days after the beginning of an acute infection of the upper respiratory tract. The onset was sudden, with a temperature of from 103 to 105 F., vomiting, prostration, frequent stools and rapid dehydration. The stools were watery and green ; most of them contained mucus ; some contained blood and some, a variable amount of pus. The number of stools varied considerably. Some patients had from five to seven during the twenty-four hours, while others had from eighteen to Downloaded From: http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Auckland User on 06/04/2015

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“…0. JORDAN, R. R. CRAWFORD AND J. McBROOM ditions: chronic discharging wounds (Whittingham, 1919); ulcerative colitis (Thjbtta, 1920); fatal septicemia (Magath and Jackson, 1925); pyelitis (Riding, 1927); fatal cholecystitis (Thj6tta, 1928); pyelitis and colitis (d'Aunoy, 1929); enteritis associated with mastoiditis in infants (Dick, Dick and Williams, 1928); and summer diarrhea in children (Mackenzie and Batt, 1930). Stewart (1928) has claimed that the Morgan bacillus is commonly present in the intestinal tracts of patients with mental disease and that its elimination from the bowel (through vaccination) is followed "by improvement in bodily health and possibly improvement of the mental condition.…”

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The isolation by Morgan (1906) of a previously undescribed bacillus-"Morgan's bacillus Type P"1-from the stools of 28 out of 58 infants with summer diarrhea was followed by other studies2 which were thought to indicate that this organism bears a causal relation to diarrhea in infants and young children. The causation of adult diarrhea and dysentery has also been attributed to this organism, particularly by French authors and by students of dysenteric infections during the Great War.A Phalen and Kilbourne (1910) considered that dysentery in the Philippines was due in part to the Morgan bacillus; this was "the only type of dysentery" encountered in certain regions. Later investigators have found the Morgan bacillus in a variety of pathological con-1 Several other bacillary "types" were described by Morgan, but they have not been as commonly reported by later investigators, and "Type I" has by common consent become "Morgan's bacillus," "B. Morganii," or "Salmonella morganii." "B. morgani" is used synonymously with "B. Morgan No. 1" in the 3d edition of the Catalogue of the National Collection of Type Cultures, London, 1931. Waaler (Jour. Bact., 1931, 22, 261) has recently reported the presence of Morgan's Type XII in five cases of infection of the urinary tract.

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The Etiology of an Epidemic of Enteritis Associated With Mastoiditis in Infants

Cited by 20 publications

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Dislocations of the Knee Joint

Dislocations of the Knee Joint

Ii. Clinical Studies on Forty-Six Patients With Acute Enteritis; Necropsy Studies

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