ヂフテリー性口内炎にて死亡した一症例

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A male patient, 41 years of age, who was hospitalized by unidentified illness, later proved to have primary lesion in his mouth due to diphtheria which eventually caused his death. There was observed no pathologic change in his throat as it ought to be, and instead, patches of darkish, white pseudmembrane had covered those regions of the mouth facing the molar teeth of upper and lower jaws, and from thence an organism identified as the true Corynebacterium diphtheriae was isolated. Besides this, a variant organism of Corynebacterium with different characteristics was isolated by culture from the patient′s blood circulation. The latter organism showed its own cultural and sugar-fermenting characteristics distinct from the members of the same species as described in Bergey′s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology (1948). It was also confirmed that the organism was pathogenic to guinea pigs and rabbits. It must be added that the autopsy clearly decided the cause of the patient′s death as due to diphtheria.
九州歯科学会の論文
1958-09-30