Differences between Streptococcal Infections of the Throat and of the Skin

IN man the two most common sites of infection with streptococci are the upper respiratory tract and the skin. For several decades the intense preoccupation of streptococcal investigators with infection of the pharynx and related structures advanced our knowledge of this form of streptococcal infection and its complications, whereas streptococcal infections of the skin received relatively little attention. An increasing interest in skin infections in recent years, however, has resulted in a better understanding of this form of streptococcal infection and a growing realization of the many features that set it aside from infection of the upper respiratory tract with . . .