Pneumococcal Bacteremia with Especial Reference to Bacteremic Pneumococcal Pneumonia

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Article1 May 1964Pneumococcal Bacteremia with Especial Reference to Bacteremic Pneumococcal PneumoniaROBERT AUSTRIAN, M.D., JEROME GOLD, M.D.ROBERT AUSTRIAN, M.D., JEROME GOLD, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-60-5-759 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptTwenty-five years have elapsed since the subject of pneumococcal bacteremia has been reviewed (1, 2). In that period many changes have taken place both in the treatment of this disorder and in the attitude of the medical profession toward it. The introduction of a series of antimicrobial drugs effective against all capsular types of pneumococcus has led to widespread abandonment of the more precise bacteriologic techniques designed for the recognition of this organism and secondarily to the impression that pneumococcal disease no longer constitutes a serious medical problem. To determine the validity of these practices and attitudes, established techniques for...References1. TILGHMANFINLAND RCM: Clinical significance of bacteremia in pneumococcal pneumonia. Arch. Intern. Med. (Chicago) 59: 602, 1937. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. BULLOWA JG: The Management of the Pneumonias, Oxford University Press, New York, 1937. Google Scholar3. MACLEODAUSTRIANFINLAND CMRM: Pneumococcus, in Diagnostic Procedures and Reagents, American Public Health Association, New York, 1963, pp. 222-30. Google Scholar4. Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1958, 79th Annual Edition: U. S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1958, p. 6. Google Scholar5. DINGLEBADGERFELLERHODGESJORDANRAMMELKAMP JHGFAERGWSCH: A study of illness in a group of Cleveland families. I. Plan of study and certain general observations. Amer. J. Hyg. 58: 16, 1953. MedlineGoogle Scholar6. REIMANN HA: Current problems of the pneumonias. Ann. Intern. Med. 56: 144, 1962. LinkGoogle Scholar7. Advance Report, Vital Statistics of the United States, 1961. Final Natality and Mortality Statistics: National Vital Statistics Division, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, United States Public Health Service, Nov., 1962. Google Scholar8. WOODSMITH WBMR: The inhibition of surface phagocytosis by the capsular "slime layer" of pneumococcus Type III. J. Exp. Med. 90: 85, 1949. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar9. WOODSMITH WBMR: Host-parasite relationships in experimental pneumonia due to pneumococcus Type III. J. Exp. Med. 92: 85, 1950. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar10. BALCH HH: Relation of nutritional deficiency in man to antibody production. J. Immun. 64: 397, 1950. MedlineGoogle Scholar11. BALCHSPENCER HHMT: Phagocytosis by human leukocytes. II. Relation of nutritional deficiency in man to phagocytosis. J. Clin. Invest. 33: 1321, 1954. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar12. JETERMCKEEMASON WSAPRJ: Inhibition of immune phagocytosis of Diplococcus pneumoniae by human neutrophiles with antibody against complement. J. Immun. 86: 386, 1961. MedlineGoogle Scholar13. DOWLINGLEPPER HFMH: The effect of antibiotics (Penicillin, Aureomycin, and Terramycin) on the fatality rate and incidence of complications in pneumococcic pneumonia. Amer. J. Med. Sci. 222: 396, 1951. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar14. MACLEODHODGESHEIDELBERGERBERNHARD CMRGMWG: Prevention of pneumococcal pneumonia by immunization with specific capsular polysaccharides. J. Exp. Med. 82: 445, 1945. CrossrefGoogle Scholar15. KAUFMAN P: Pneumonia in old age. Arch. Intern. Med. (Chicago) 79: 518, 1947. CrossrefGoogle Scholar16. HEIDELBERGER M: Persistence of antibodies in man after immunization, in The Nature and Significance of the Antibody Response, edited by PAPPENHEIMER, A. M., JR., Columbia University Press, New York, 1953, pp. 90-101. Google Scholar17. HEIDELBERGERMACLEODDI LAPI MCMM: The human antibody response to simultaneous injection of six specific polysaccharides of pneumococcus. J. Exp. Med. 88: 369, 1948. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaFrom the Department of Medicine, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, the Medical Service of Kings County Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, and the Department of Research Medicine, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.These data were presented in part at the 76th Session of the Association of American Physicians, April 30, 1963.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Robert Austrian, M.D., Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 4, Pennsylvania. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited ByEffects of Aging and Associated Conditions on Humoral Responses to Respiratory Tract InfectionsClinical Features and Outcomes of Streptococcus pneumoniae Meningitis in Child