Manual of serum diagnosis / by Dr. O. Rostoski ; authorized translation by Dr. Charles Bolduan.

  • Rostoski, Otto.
Date:
1904
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Credit: Manual of serum diagnosis / by Dr. O. Rostoski ; authorized translation by Dr. Charles Bolduan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It will almost always be impossible to separate a case of true typhoid from a paratyphoid by the symptoms alone. At the most, during an epidemic the general course of the disease, when it agrees with the above points, may cause one to suspect paratyphoid. Schottmuller and Kurth,^ from a total of i8o cases which had been looked upon as typhoid, were able in twelve cases to isolate a para- typhoid bacillus. Hunermann ^ observed a whole epidemic in which typhoid-like bacteria were found in the blood, which he regarded as the cause of the disease. The Gruber-Widal reaction i; loo was positive m only 42%; the newly found bacillus was always agglutinated. Similar reports concerning an epi- demic of fourteen cases in Holland are made by DE Feyfer and Kayser; ^ and Sion and Negel * * report one from Roumania. Formerly none of these cases would have been differentiated from true typhoid. In connection with the serum reaction in para- typhoid, it should be remembered that very often the bacilli of typhoid, of paratyphoid type A, * liber typhusahnlichc, (lurch eincn bishcr nicht beschrie- bcnen Bacillus bedingie Erkraiikung. Deutsche med. Woch- enschrift 1901, Nos. 30 and 31. ^ Zeitschrijt }ur Hygiene, Vol. XL. jjage 522. ^ 1. c. * Ceniralblatt fiir Hygiene, Yol. XXXII. page 481.