Symptomless Carriers in Home Contacts in Sonne Dysentery

The Use of Sulfaguanidine for Prophylaxis in Sonne Bacillary Dysentery, and in the Control of the Carrier State *

In an earlier paper the therapeutic effectiveness of sulfathiazole used during the acute stages of Sonne bacillary dysentery was demonstrated.5 However, it was shown also that sulfonamide therapy did not curtail the period during which the Sonne organism could be recovered by rectal cultures. Actually, there appeared to be statistical evidence that this period was prolonged when compared with u...

Symptomless Hyperpiesia in Dockyard Workers

made neurosis which thereafter effectively prevents them from working even if they are allowed to do so. Symptomless hyperpiesia as it occurs in working men at the age of 60 has been the subject of this small study. My object has been to try and show first whether hyperpietics, who are known to carry a short expectation of life,1 are particularly prone to chronic ill health or to die within a s...

symptomless carriers of the causal agent of tomato wilt pathogen

a study was carried out to determine whether naturally-occurring weeds and other cultivated plants in tomato growing regions could act as symptomless reservoirs of infection to fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici. a numher of f. oxysporum isolates from weeds and oubergines were used in this investigation. a susceptible tomato cultivar was used for comparison. the plants were artificially ...

Symptomless abdominal aortic aneurysm in the elderly.

Our perception of the age at which a patient becomes elderly is liable to alter when policemen start to look younger but more objective changes have also been at work. Because of lower birth rates and increased life expectation people over 65 now comprise 15% of the population of England and Wales. Immunisation, antibiotics and improved social conditions have eliminated or emasculated many dise...

Dysentery in Asylums