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Paratyphoid C, an Endemic Disease in British Guiana

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

George Giglioli
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(C.M.O. Demerara Bauxite Co., Ltd.)
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From 72 cases of pyrexial illness, occurring in British Guiana, an organism has been isolated which has the cultural and serological reactions of B. para-typhosus C (Hirschfeld). It seems probable that enteric fever, due to infection with this organism, is now endemic in the Colony, and is an important cause of sickness and death.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1929

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