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Schultz–Charlton Med.|ʃʊlts ˈtʃɑːltən| The names of Werner Schultz (1878–1948) and Willy Charlton (b. 1889), German physicians, together used attrib. to denote the test made by intradermal injection of antibody to scarlet fever toxin, or of serum containing this; and to denote the phenomenon, characteristically diagnostic of scarlet fever, whereby such an injection causes local extinction of a rash.
1922Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 12 Aug. 594/1 Rojo's experience has confirmed the specific and reliable nature of the Schultz–Charlton phenomenon in the differential diagnosis of scarlet fever. 1925Jrnl. Clin. Invest. I. 275 (heading) The Schultz–Charlton phenomenon. Ibid. 293 Serum from convalescent scarlet fever patients produced the Schultz–Charlton rash extinction phenomenon in twenty-four of twenty-seven cases tested. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VIII. 948/1 When an injection of a small amount of immune serum..is made into the skin while the rash is at its height, a blanched area results at the point of injection within 18 hours if the rash in question is caused by scarlet fever toxin. This reaction is known as the Schultz–Charlton test. |