CULTURAL STUDIES ON A CASE OF SPRUE
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- 3 January 1920
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 74 (1) , 27-28
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1920.02620010033010
Abstract
The purpose of this preliminary communication is to record briefly certain laboratory findings in a case of sprue. REPORT OF CASE Charles W., an American, resident in Porto Rico, invalided north, was admitted to the Long Island College Hospital, where stool cultures were made. Following this, tongue cultures, sputum cultures and a culture from a tooth abscess were taken, as well as a blood culture. On two occasions from the stool, twice from tongue scrapings, once from the sputum and once from the tooth abscess, a growth of yeasts was obtained which corresponded in the main toMonilia psilosis, described by Ashford1as the cause of sprue. Isolation of Crganism. —In the case of the stool, cultures were obtained by emulsifying a standard loopful of stool in from 1 to 2 c.c. of sterile physiologic sodium chlorid solution and streaking from 1 to 2 loopfuls of the suspension acrossKeywords
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