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Fatal Epidemic Enteritis due to B. dysenteriae Sonne

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Hilda R. Hay
Hilda R. Hay
Affiliation:
(Muirhead Research Scholar in Bacteriology, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow.)
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1. An outbreak is described of fatal epidemic enteritis due to B. dysenteriae Sonne which occurred in the autumn, 1928, in the infant wards of a hospital in Glasgow.

2. The clinical histories of two fatal cases are given.

3. The bacteriological and immunological examination of two strains of B. dysenteriae Sonne is described.

4. The results are given of a series of animal inoculations undertaken to study the virulence of B. dysenteriae Sonne and the nature of the lesions which it produces. To these are added the results of certain feeding experiments.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , April 1930 , pp. 25 - 31
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1930

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