Severe Streptococcal Disease

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Abstract
IN recent years the nonsuppurative complications of streptococcal disease have received considerably more attention than acute infections caused by the Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus. This is in contrast to the preantibiotic experience, when severe streptococcal infections were commonly encountered and were frequently fatal.During the winter and spring of 1958–1959, when a streptococcal epidemic occurred in the Boston area, many of the classic forms of severe Streptococcus pyogenes infections were observed. The purpose of this report is to emphasize the fact that during an epidemic both unusual and fulminating forms of streptococcal disease may be encountered. It is also worth . . .