PEDIATRICS Vol. 29 No. 3 March 1962, pp. 499-500
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In Reply: Hazards of Foods

Lewis L. Coriell M.D.1

1 Committee on the Control of Infectious Diseases

The syndrome described by Dr. Garrison is consistent with the ingestion of enterotoxin produced by staphylococci or to acute allergic constitutional reaction to ingested foods (Pediatrics, 29: 129, 1962). The short incubation period, type of gastrointestinal symptoms, accompanied by prostration, evidence of circulatory shock, followed by recovery, could be produced by either. To confirm the staphylococcal enterotoxin diagnosis it is most important to save the suspected food—test it for the presence of staphylococcal enterotoxin or other toxic products and to identify all organisms present.