Attack Rates of Streptococcal Pharyngitis, Rheumatic Fever and Glomerulonephritis in the General Population

Abstract

ALTHOUGH in the past twenty years the epidemiology of streptococcal infections has been studied extensively, only a few studies were conducted in the open civilian population. Most were done in more or less closed communities,^{1 , 2} in selected families^{3 , 4} or with children.^{5 6 7 8} In only one study was the population of a complete village followed clinically, bacteriologically and serologically⁹ during a period of seven years.The results of the attack rate of rheumatic fever and acute hemorrhagic glomerulonephritis in the population of a small town during a two-year period (May, 1959, through April, 1961) were presented in a preceding report.¹⁰ In . . .