. Internal medicine; a work for the practicing physician on diagnosis and treatment, with a complete Desk index. ible of laboratory animals to the poison, are used for determining the intensity of bacilli are sometimesspoken of as the pseudobacillus of diph-theria—a misnomer. The pseudodiph-theria bacillus or Bacillus xerosisresembles the Klebs-Loffler bacillusmorphologically, but differs from it incertain cultural peculiarities and beingnon-pathogenic. The biological rela-tionship of this organism to the Klebs-Loffler bacillus has not been Klebs-Loffler ba
. Internal medicine; a work for the practicing physician on diagnosis and treatment, with a complete Desk index. ible of laboratory animals to the poison, are used for determining the intensity of bacilli are sometimesspoken of as the pseudobacillus of diph-theria—a misnomer. The pseudodiph-theria bacillus or Bacillus xerosisresembles the Klebs-Loffler bacillusmorphologically, but differs from it incertain cultural peculiarities and beingnon-pathogenic. The biological rela-tionship of this organism to the Klebs-Loffler bacillus has not been Klebs-Loffler bacilli may bepresent upon the mucous membrane ofcases which show no membranous exu-date and present the clinical picture Fig. 240.—Bacillus diphtherise from culture r i 4.„„„:n,-i-,„ ^„ « „:,^^^^ on Lofflers blood-serum. of a lacunar tonsiUitis Or a simple erythematous angina. They are veryoften found in the throat and nose of individuals who have passedthrough an attack of diphtheria and are fully convalescent. Under thesecircumstances they may persist for weeks or months, during which time. DIPHTHERIA. 108 the patient may commiinleate the disease to others or pass through oneor more fresh attacks himself. They are fre(|uentiy isohitcd from thethroats of liealthy persons, both the nurses and attendants upon the sickand others living in the same house with tlic patient or convalescent—bacilluscarriers. The orijfanisnis liave l)een found in tlie hair and clothinjr ofnurses and in the dust of diphtheria wards. The disease may be com-municated by means of infected milk. The foregoing facts shed consitlerable light upon the endemic andepidemic prevalence of the disease, as well as the occurrence of sporadiccases. They enable us to understand the persistence of diphtheria inlocalities, the occurrence of house and neighborhood epidemics, thesimultaneous occurrence of scattered cases in a school district, and thedevelopment of cases in patients long confined in hospi
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