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CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS ON COLIFORM BACTERIA INFECTIONS OF THE UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT

CONRAD BERENS, M.D.; EDITH L. NILSON

Arch Ophthal. 1941;26(5):816-839.

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The pathogenicity for the rabbit of coliform bacteria isolated from the upper respiratory tract of man has been considered in previous investigations.¹ The present communication is concerned with the possible significance of these organisms in various acute and chronic ocular diseases in man. A large number of patients with serious uveal inflammation have been found to harbor coliform bacteria in their respiratory passages. Since these bacteria have been isolated from the same patients on repeated cultures, often in pure culture, they probably should not be considered transitory invaders. Moreover, it appears that an agent capable of producing a toxin as pathogenic for the rabbit as that produced by coliform bacteria might in man in the presence of sensitized tissues or lowered resistance produce severe acute or chronic ocular disease.

In view of these observations and of the apparent affinity of the toxins of these microbes for the uveal tissue . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Aided by a grant from The Ophthalmological Foundation, Inc.

Read before the Section on Ophthalmology at the Ninety-Second Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Cleveland, June 5, 1941.

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