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KMID : 0383919730100000385
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Report of National Institute of Health
1973 Volume.10 No. 0 p.385 ~ p.390
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An epidemiological survey on the distribution of reservoirs of enteric pathogens in Korea
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Abstract
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With regard to the control of acute enteric infections, it is well known that the existence of chronic carriers is necessary to convey the epidemics from one to the other and from one place to the other as well as that of apparent cases since the intensive investigations were undertaken in Germany under the auspices of Robert Koch in the early years of present century.
It has long been experienced in Korea that quite a number of cases of typhoid fever and bacillary dysentery have been reported for many years in spite of devoting much effort to control the diseases.
The authors attempted to find out the distribution of the carriers or excreters which had been understood as the only reservoir ia case of typhoid fever and bacillary drsentery, and consequently a number of enteric pathogens were detected.
The model areas were selected out from each city and province, and the stool specimens were taken from each iudividual by meaas of rectal swab or defecated stool. Those were transported in Cary and Blair media to the regional provincial hygiene laboratories where the conventional screening procedures could be carried out. The suspectable organisms detected in provincial hygiene laboratories were transported to the National Salmonella Centre in order to be bacteriologically and serologically confirmed.
The results obtained from the survey were summarized in the present report.
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