Journal Title
Title of Journal: Am J Dis Child
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Abbravation: American Journal of Diseases of Children
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Publisher
American Medical Association
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Authors: WILSON G SMILLIE
Publish Date: 1917/04/01
Volume: 13, Issue: 4, Pages: 337-353
Abstract
Bacillary dysentery takes a heavy toll of the infants of large cities every summer The disease is not spectacular for it usually does not spread over large areas but strikes at random here and there and passes by almost unnoticed During a period of ten years however the case incidence is probably higher than the greatly feared poliomyelitis and the death rate is equally highThe cause of the disease is well recognized and its treatment has received careful study but the mode of transmission has excited only indifference or at most random speculation Epidemics of adult dysentery have received much attention particularly during the present war for the disease has at times wrought havoc among the soldiers The source and the mode of transmission of the casual case the sporadic case the usual type of summer bacillary dysentery of infants is unknown Kendall1 believes that the disease in
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citation author=Hamilton Jour Am Med Assn citation year=1903 citation volume=40 citation pages=576
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