Note 100 — Chapter V · SECONDARY INFECTION IN THE WARD TREATMENT OF MEASLES
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Sputum or saliva cultures on 50 of these men yielded 1 positive for S. hemolyticus. Sputum or saliva injected intraperitoneally into white mice and cultures made from the peritoneal exudate of such mice, yielded 2 additional positives in the same group of 50 men. These 3 positive cases showed very few colonies of hemolytic streptococci.