Recent Prevalence of Scarlet Fever in Osaka district

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  • 最近の大阪地方における狸紅熱の流行について
  • epidemic Study related to Hemolytic Streptococcus as the key subject
  • 特に溶連菌を中心とする疫学的考察

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The prevalence of scarlet fever was observed from October 1962 to August 1963.<BR>Hemolytic streptococci of Lancefield's A group 6 type were isolated at a very high rate from the throats of scarlet fever patients. In the prevalent period the cocci, same type as the prevalent ones had been distributed densely among the healthy school boys and girls. The cases were as frequently encountered in boys as in girls at the age of six as the peak. Drug senistivity of hemolytic streptococci isolated from either the patients or healthy school boys and girls were about the same as the usual reports, but two strains of cocci with 50 mcg/ml sensitivity against Tetracycline were found.

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