OTITIC INFECTIONS DUE TO THE PNEUMOCCCUS TYPE III
- 1 July 1939
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
- Vol. 30 (1) , 21-37
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archotol.1939.00650060029003
Abstract
The pneumococcus type III, because of its virulence and tendency to produce intracranial complications, has been a source of concern to the otologist ever since Schottmüller1 described this organism in 1903. He named it Streptococcus mucosus because of its mucus-producing property on blood agar cultures. It was his impression that he was dealing with the same organism that Richardson2 had described two years previously but had called Pseudopneumococcus. Since that time the pneumococcus type III has been erroneously classified as a streptococcus and the term Str. mucosus has remained more or less fixed in the minds of physicians. In spite of the fact that in 1927 it was definitely established and classified as the pneumococcus type III according to bacteriologic standards of bile solubility, agglutination and precipitation, the organism at the present time is still referred to by some as Str. mucosus. It is advisable that this misnomer be abandonedKeywords
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