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Milk-borne Sonne Dysentery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

G. Matthew Fyfe
G. Matthew Fyfe
Affiliation:
(Bacteriologist, The James Mackenzie Institute for Clinical Research, Medical Officer of Health, St Andrews.)
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1. There is recorded for the first time an outbreak of milk-borne bacillary dysentery which has been proved to be due to B. dysenteriae Sonne.

2. In this milk-borne outbreak of Sonne dysentery there were over 150 cases and no deaths, the absence of mortality being in marked contrast to the high mortality rate which accompanies milk-borne outbreaks of Flexner dysentery.

3. Several milk-borne outbreaks of enteritis simulating dysenteric infections have been recorded in which the evidence has pointed to a living bacillus of unrecognised type as the causal agent. It is obvious that in future B. dysenteriae Sonne will require to be excluded from the group of the unrecognised viruses.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , August 1927 , pp. 271 - 278
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1927

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