STUDIES ON INDIFFERENT STREPTOCOCCI : II. OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF INDIFFERENT STREPTOCOCCI IN THE THROATS OF RHEUMATIC AND NON-RHEUMATIC INDIVIDUALS.

Indifferent streptococci occur in comparatively the same abundance in the throats of patients suffering from rheumatic fever or early in convalescence from the disease as they do in those who have recovered from the disease, or in those of patients suffering from other diseases. There is a slightly increased incidence of these microorganisms in the throats of hospital patients as compared with those of normal individuals. Type I occurs with comparatively equal frequency and abundance in the throats of all four classes of individuals studied.