A Milk-borne Epidemic of Septic Sore Throat in Portland, Oregon *

Septic Sore Throat

The condition commonly known as septic throat or epidemic sore throat deserves special importance from the general practitioner as like no other common condition it is so frequentlymissed and even mis-diagnosed. This is particularly unfortunate because it is amenable to a simple and reliable form of therapy. Septic sore throat is an acute streptococcal infection with a fairly clear-cut clinical...

J a Septic Sore Throat Epidemic in Cortland and Homer, N.y.*

Dairy Infection with Streptococcus Epidemicus

A streptococcus epidemic of moderate extent and severity was characterized by clinical symptoms different from the usual septic sore throat, though the organism found was culturally Streptococcus epidemicus. The infection was traced to the milk from a single quarter of the udder of a cow in a dairy of 112 cows producing an otherwise excellent grade of raw milk. A number of the milkers on the da...

Pathogenic Streptococci and Milk Pasteurization.

D URING the investigation of a recent epidemic of septic sore throat' the writers of this article ook occasion to make a fairly extensive .urvey of the literature of the strepto:occi with special reference to their relaion to the spread of disease through milk. Che results of this survey, together with :ertain observations made in the course of he investigation, have impressed us with he fact t...

Comparing the Effect of Dexamethasone before and after Tracheal Intubation on Sore Throat after Tympanoplasty Surgery: A Randomized Controlled trial

Introduction: Presence of a sore throat after surgery is a common side effect of general anesthesia with intratracheal intubation and can cause discomfort for the patient and prolong the recovery process. In this study we compared the effect of dexamethasone before and after intubation on the incidence of sore throat after tympanoplasty surgery.   Materials and Methods: In a double-blind, rando...