RECOVERY FROM ACUTE FRIEDLÄNDER PNEUMONIA; REPORT OF A CASE AND REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Authors: Milton M. Hartman
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1940)

Case Reports1 September 1940RECOVERY FROM ACUTE FRIEDLÄNDER PNEUMONIA; REPORT OF A CASE AND REVIEW OF LITERATUREMILTON M. HARTMAN, M.D.MILTON M. HARTMAN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-14-3-513 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptAcute primary Friedländer bacillus pneumonia is such an uncommon and highly fatal disease that any recovery from it should be reported in the hope that our present therapeutic armamentarium may receive some useful modification or addition. When the patient surviving this usually fatal type of infection is 70 years old at the time of his illness, thereby becoming the oldest reported case, his physician has the additional pleasure and privilege of reporting a medical curiosity.As shown by Sisson,1Belk,2and Solomon,3primary Friedländer bacillus pneumonia presents a definite clinical picture, with a characteristic age incidence (the large majority of...Bibliography1. SISSONTHOMPSON WBCB: Friedländer bacillus pneumonia with report of cases, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1915, cl, 713. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. BELK WP: Pulmonary infections by Friedländer's bacillus, Jr. Infect. Dis., 1926, xxxviii, 115. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. SOLOMON S: Primary Friedländer pneumonia, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1937, cviii, 937. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. JULIANELLE LA: A biological classification of encapsulatus pneumoniae (Friedländer bacillus), Jr. Exper. Med., 1926, xliv, 113, 683, 735. JULIANELLE, L. A.: The distribution of Friedländer's bacillus of different types, Jr. Exper. Med., 1930, lii, 539. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. BLOOMFIELD AL: The mechanism of the bacillus carrier, with special reference to the Friedländer bacillus, Am. Rev. Tuberc., 1921, iv, 847. Google Scholar6. FRIEDLANDER C: Ueber die Schizomyceten bei der acuten fibrösen Pneumonie, Virchow's Arch. f. path. Anat., 1882, lxxxvii, 319. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. WEICHSELBAUM A: Ueber die Aetiologie der acuten Lungen- und Rippenfellentzündungen, Med. Jahrb., 1886, i, 483. Google Scholar8. HOWARD WT: The importance of bacillus mucosus-capsulatus (bacillus of Friedländer) as the cause of acute and chronic infections, Philadelphia Med. Jr., 1898, i, 336. Google Scholar9. AVERYCHICKERINGCOLEDOCHEZ OTHTRAR: Monogr. Rockefeller Institute No. 7, Oct. 16, 1917. Google Scholar10. CECILBALDWINLARSEN RLHSNP: Lobar pneumonia: a clinical and pathological study of two thousand typed cases, Arch. Int. Med., 1937, xl, 253. Google Scholar11. BULLOWACHESSFRIEDMAN JGJNB: Pneumonia due to Bacillus friedländer , Arch. Int. Med., 1937, lx, 735. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12. BHATNAGARSINGH SSK: Bacteriological studies in acute lobar pneumonia due to pneumococcus and B. pneumoniae Friedländer , Indian Jr. Med. Res., 1935, xxiii, 337. Google Scholar13. BAEHRSCHWARTZMANNGREENSPAN GGEB: Bacillus Friedländer infections, ANN. INT. MED., 1937, x, 1788. LinkGoogle Scholar14. ETIENNE G: Le Pneumobacille de Friedländer: son rôle en pathologie, Arch. de méd. expér. et d'anat. path., 1895, vii, 124. Google Scholar15. COMBA C: Setticemia de bacilo del Friedländer in un neonato, le sperimentale, Arch. d. Biol., 1896, l, 112. Google Scholar16. FERGUSONTOWER JAAA: Pneumonia in infants due to Bacillus mucosus-capsulatus , Am. Jr. Dis. Child., 1933, xlvi, 59. CrossrefGoogle Scholar17. ZANDER A: Ausgedehnte Endemie von Lungenentzündungen durch Infektion mit Friedländerschen Pneumobazillen unter Zivilarbeitern, Deutsch. med. Wchnschr., 1919, xlv, 1180. Google Scholar18. CHIRIÉ MJ: Bronchopneumonie diffuse et septicémie à pneumobacilles de Friedländer guérie por les injections intraveineuses d'argent colloidal électrique, Soc. d. Obstetrique, 1906, ix, 357. Google Scholar19. PICDURAND AP: Pneumonie à pneumobacilles de Friedländer. Empyema. Vomique. Abcés de fixation. Bacteriotherapie. Guerison, Lyon méd., 1914, cxxii, 775. Google Scholar20. ABRAMIWORMS PR: Septicémie à pneumobacilles de Friedländer avec localization pulmonaire, Bull. et mém. Soc. med. d. hôp. de Paris, 1930, liv, 479. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: San Francisco, California*Received for publication April 19, 1939.From The Department of Medicine, Stanford University Medical School. Approved for publication by Dr. A. L. Bloomfield. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byPerirenal Abscess with Gas Formation and Metastatic Pulmonary Abscesses Due to Friedlaender’s Bacillus—a Case Report 1 September 1940Volume 14, Issue 3Page: 513-521KeywordsBacillusPneumonia ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 September 1940 PDF downloadLoading ...