Epidemic Respiratory Disease: The pneumonias and other infections of the repiratory tract accompanying influenza and measlesOpie, Eugene L. (Eugene Lindsay)
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Epidemic Respiratory Disease: The pneumonias and other infections of the repiratory tract accompanying influenza and measles
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│ NO. OF │ │ │ PNEUMOCOCCUS II
│CULTURES│ PNEUMOCOCCUS I │ PNEUMOCOCCUS II │ (Atyp.)
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│ │ NO. │PER CENT│ NO. │PER CENT│ NO. │PER CENT
│ │POSITIVE│POSITIVE│POSITIVE│POSITIVE│POSITIVE│POSITIVE
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Bronchus│ 14│ 2│ 14.3│ 1│ 7.1│ 3│ 21.4
Lung │ 19│ 1│ 5.3│ │ │ 5│ 26.3
Blood │ 33│ 2│ 6.1│ 3│ 9.1│ 4│ 12.1
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│ │
│PNEUMOCOCCUS III │ PNEUMOCOCCUS IV
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│ NO. │PER CENT│ NO. │PER CENT
│POSITIVE│POSITIVE│POSITIVE│POSITIVE
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Bronchus│ │ │ 3│ 21.4
Lung │ │ │ 6│ 31.6
Blood │ │ │ 12│ 36.4
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There is no noteworthy difference in the occurrence of these types of
pneumococci among instances of lobar pneumonia, on the one hand, and of
combined lobar and bronchopneumonia, on the other. Different types
exhibit no noteworthy differences in their ability to penetrate into
lungs and blood.
=Hemolytic Streptococcus with Lobar Pneumonia.=—There can be no doubt
that the concurrent infection with microorganisms other than
pneumococcus modifies the progress of lobar pneumonia. With lobar
pneumonia alone hemolytic streptococci have entered the bronchi in 30
per cent of instances and have penetrated into the lungs in 20.6 per
cent; with associated lobar and bronchopneumonia the same microorganism
has entered the bronchi in 34.3 per cent of instances and invaded the
lung in 31.6 per cent. Hemolytic streptococci are the only
microorganisms other than pneumococci which, in association with lobar
pneumonia, have found their way from the lungs to the blood stream; more
than one-third of all instances of lobar pneumonia in which hemolytic
streptococci find entrance into the bronchi die with streptococcus
septicemia.
Separation of instances of lobar pneumonia into groups on the basis of
the occurrence of red or gray hepatization shows that infection with
hemolytic streptococcus is more likely to occur during the early stages
of the disease. The average duration of lobar pneumonia with red
hepatization has been 3.7 days, with red and gray hepatization, 5.1
days, and with gray hepatization, 7.5 days. Infection with hemolytic
streptococcus has occurred in association with red or gray hepatization
as shown in Table XXXIII.
TABLE XXXIII
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