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It should be pointed out, at the very start, that the material to be presented under the title assigned to me is a sort of replay of an old record (Finland, 1970; Finland, Jones and Barnes, 1959), but in a new edition, with some different material to bring it more nearly up to date in line with some new developments. The bulk of the data consists primarily of surveys of material from the Boston City Hospital where we have been monitoring serious infections over the course of several decades. The first portion will deal with the bacteria which have been isolated from blood cultures of patients with compatible infections, and the changes in the frequency with which different bacterial pathogens have been encountered.
Most of the studies on which this paper is based were supported in part by grants 5R01-AI-00023 and 2T01-AI-00068 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.
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Finland, M. (1971). Changing Prevalence of Pathogenic Bacteria in Relation to Time and the Introduction and Use of New Antimicrobial Agents. In: Finland, M., Marget, W., Bartmann, K. (eds) Bacterial Infections. Bayer-Symposium, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65267-7_2
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