Abstract
Summary
In 6 young children with the nephrotic syndrome who developed pneumocoecal peritonitis, the type of pneumococcus recovered from the nasopharynx was the same as that causing peritonitis. Evidence is presented which indicates that peritonitis may be caused by a strain of pneumococcus of the same specific type as that of the organism known to have been carried in the nasopharynx for a considerable time before the development of the infection; this carrier-state may persist for a prolonged period after recovery from peritonitis.
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