Studies on Acute Respiratory Infections

[摘要] This study is part of the general investigation of the diseases of the respiratory tract. The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not a dominant variety of hemolytic streptococcus could be isolated from the cases of acute colds and influenza studied.The rôle played by the hemolytic streptococcus in a considerable percentage of the fatal pneumonias in 1918 has stimulated many investigators (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), to study the incidence of this organism in the secretions of the nose, throat and in the sputum of normal persons and in conditions of respiratory disease. They also studied the fermentative reactions in an attempt to correlate the fermentative types with the character of the respiratory condition.The work of these investigators is of interest primarily in that it indicates that the streptococcus hemolyticus is frequently present in the throat, especially if the tonsils be large and cryptic.

[学科分类] 生物科学（综合）