Epidemic Respiratory Disease / The pneumonias and other infections of the repiratory tract accompanying influenza and measles

by Eugene L. Opie; Francis G. Blake; Thomas M. Rivers; James C. Small

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[100]. 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.