Premium
Über eine Tuberkulose‐Epidemie boviner Herkunft einer Stadtbevölkerung und einer Ferienkolonie für Kinder
Author(s) -
GNOSSPELIUS A.
Publication year - 1939
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1939.tb16900.x
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculin , tuberculosis , erythema nodosum , statute , law , disease , pathology , political science
Summary. The author describes a tubercular epidemic, which was caused by not pasteurised milk and which overtook 33 families out. of 136 persons living in the city of Gothenburg. Upon an examination of 100 of these were 98 tuberculin‐positive. The 2 tuberculin‐negative were infants, who only had eaten mothers' milk and for that reason had not come in contact with infected milk. 23 of these 100 persons must be regarded as surely infected by the milk. 2 had Erythema nodosum and 7 tubercular jugular glands. Two of the last mentioned were proven to have tubercular bacillus of bovine type. – The same infected milk had been delivered to a summerhome for 42 children. At least 17 children were infected; 4 had Erythema nodosum and 4 tubercular jugular glands. The above mentioned number of infected persons must be regarded as a minimum; those in reality infected may be considerably greater in number. According to new statutes is after the 1st of July 1939 only pasteurised milk to be sold in cities and larger communities in Sweden. Exemption from this may be given to farms with non‐reactive stock. These statutes are not applicable to the countryside, which ought to be taken into consideration when city families leave for the country and when planning summerhome for children.