Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Carrier Problem in Infectious Diseases
Our object in writing the following pages has been to present, in as complete a form as possible, the present state of knowledge with regard to the role played by the human carrier in infectious diseases. It is needless to urge at the present time the importance of carriers, since it is widely recognized that they indicate one of the most promising lines along which epidemiology is advancing.
At first sight it may appear arbitrary to have selected six diseases, and to have confined our attention solely to them. It is, however, only in these instances that sufficient exact know ledge is at hand on which to base a statement as to the importance of carriers. There is little doubt that before long it will be possible to include a considerable number of other infectious diseases in the same category. In the meanwhile these six diseases may serve as the examples for which the facts have been most accurately, if incompletely, worked out. In com piling the book we have had the benefit of personal experience, and also of the work of our colleagues, especially in connection with typhoid fever, diphtheria, cerebrospinal meningitis, and dysentery. Though approaching the subject mainly from the bacteriological side, we have tried to correctly appreciate the epidemiological point of View, and to correlate the work done in the two departments. We hope that the book may prove to be of service, not only to epidemiologists and public health authorities, but also to bacteriologists who may have to under take work ih connection with carriers.
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