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Characterize the clinical syndromes and immunologic variation resulting from simultaneous exposure to a single strain of group A hemolytic streptococcus.

November 1, 1945Archives of Internal Medicine

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Characterize the clinical syndromes and immunologic variation resulting from simultaneous exposure to a single strain of group A hemolytic streptococcus.
Epidemiologic observation of individuals exposed to a shared outbreak of a single serologic type of group A hemolytic streptococcus.
Assessment of clinical manifestations and disease severity across exposed persons.
Exposure to an identical bacterial strain produces a broad spectrum of clinical syndromes with widely varying degrees of severity.
Single-strain epidemics provide rare opportunities to evaluate uniform infectious doses, bypassing the confounding variability of diverse circulating serotypes.

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Epidemiologic investigation observes varying disease severity in individuals exposed to group A hemolytic streptococcus, highlighting the clinical spectrum of single-strain infections.

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Lowell A. Rantz (1945) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a90768f55a9abd3b08415eb https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1945.00210350024004

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Epidemiologic investigation observes varying disease severity in individuals exposed to group A hemolytic streptococcus, highlighting the clinical spectrum of single-strain infections.

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