[Bacterial diseases in internal medicine caused by infection]

A survey is given on infection-conditioned bacterial diseases in internal medicine. Important for practice is the classification of the infectious diseases in such with high and slight contagiousness as well as in infection-conditioned diseases with special affection of organs, the symptoms of which coin the further course. Furthermore is referred to the differentiation of specific infectious diseases with clear reference to a definite causative organism and of unspecific infectious diseases which in the majority represent themselves as polyetiologic syndromes with uniform clinical pictures. More discussed are the infectious hospitalism, the salmonellial enteritis, the yersinioses, typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, bacterial dysentery, scarlet fever, diphtheria, meningitis, brucelloses, leptospiroses, listerioses, pneumonias, bronchitis, obstructive diseases of the respiratory tract as well as pyelonephritis and bacterial carditis.