Skip to main content
Device Global Header

Subscribe
or Renew

Advanced Search

This article is available to subscribers. Subscribe now. Already have an account? Sign in

Original ArticleFree PreviewArchive

Bacteriologic Flora of the Lower Respiratory Tract

List of authors.
  • Gustave A. Laurenzi, M.D.†,
  • Robert T. Potter, M.D.‡,
  • and Edward H. Kass, M.D., Ph.D.§

THE complex nature of chronic bronchitis makes it difficult to define the relative importance of the many factors that might contribute to its pathogenesis and course.1 , 2 The progressive decline of the patient can generally be related to the number, length and severity of acute exacerbations that he suffers. The role of infection in the decline of the bronchitic patient is indicated by the morphologic findings in the bronchopulmonary tree,3 by the relative success of antibacterial treatment of the acute illness and by the occasional effectiveness of the prophylactic use of selected antibiotics.4 5 6 Much of the difficulty in evaluating the role . . .

Funding and Disclosures

* From the Channing Laboratory, Mallory Institute of Pathology, Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Second and Fourth (Harvard) Medical Services, and the Thoracic Surgical Service, Boston City Hospital, the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine.

Aided by grants from the United States Public Health Service and the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association.

Author Affiliations

BOSTON

† Assistant professor of medicine, Seton Hall College of Medicine, Jersey City, New Jersey; formerly, research fellow of the New Jersey Tuberculosis and Health Association, Channing Fellow in Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, and fellow in bacteriology, Boston City Hospital.

‡ Instructor in surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; assistant attending surgeon, First (Columbia) Surgical Division, Bellevue Hospital; formerly, chief resident, Thoracic Surgical Service, Boston City Hospital, and senior teaching fellow in surgery, Boston University School of Medicine.

§ Associate professor of bacteriology and immunology, Harvard Medical School; associate director, Mallory Institute of Pathology, and assistant physician, Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, Boston City Hospital.

Print Subscriber? Activate your online access.