SCARLET FEVER AND ENTERIC FEVER.

Heart Disease in Scarlet Fever

The association of scarlet fever and cardiac injury has been a subject of discussion for many years. There is wide diversity of opinion concerning the frequencv of the cardiac lesions and the role which scarlet fever plays in their etiology. McCollomtT found 254 instances of cardiac damage of various sorts in a series of IOOO cases. He noted endocarditis in 3 individuals and pericarditis in 5. ...

Enteric Fever

ENTERIC FEVER. By Thomas O'Farrell, M.A., M.D., Surgeon, A. 31. D. That enteric fever is prevalent in India, especially among those who have recently changed their residence from England to this country, is a well-recognized fact, yet here, as well as at home, a variety of opinions are held as to the causation and propagation of the disease. <Ve have the great contagionist, "William Badd, asser...

Enteric Fever

The Comeback of Scarlet Fever

Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus, GAS) is arguably the clone (Tse et al., 2012; You et al., 2018). The emm12 type is not new most virulent of all clinically important streptococci with a propensity to cause severe invasive diseases, toxic shock syndrome, and immunopathological damages such as acute rheumatic fever. Since the 1980s, severe GAS infections such as necrotizing fasciiti...

Cardiac complications in scarlet fever.

Stegemann (1914) described pathological changes in the myocardium and nervous system of the heart. Siegmund (1931) found inflammation chiefly in the thebesian vessels. Brody and Smith (1936) found pathological changes in the heart of 90 per cent. of the fatal cases. They described three types of myocarditis: 1. Focal or diffuse interstitial myocarditis. 2. Arteritis or periarteritis of the smal...