Streptococci in infectious (atrophic) arthritis and rheumatic fever

Abstract

The isolation of one or another type of streptococcus from the blood and joints of patients with infectious (atrophic) arthritis or rheumatic fever has been reported by a number of observers and has been denied by many more. Within the past two years interest in this question has revived, due, primarily, to the work of Cecil, Nicholls and Stainsby (1, 2, 3) and of Forkner, Shands and Poston (4, 5). © 1930, Rockefeller University Press., All rights reserved.