Only cases of clear-cut pneumococcal lobar pneumonia were included, selection being based upon a characteristic history, physical and x-ray evidence of pulmonary consolidation, fever, leukocytosis ...

In February, 1963, a tetracycline-resistant Type 14 pneumococcus was isolated from the sputum of a patient with sarcoidosis who contracted classic lobar pneumonia while on tetracycline therapy.

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