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Spirochaeta icterohaemorrhagiae in the Common Rat in England. With Remarks on the Minute Structure of these Leptospira (Noguchi)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Alfred C. Coles
Affiliation:
Physician to the Royal National Sanatorium, Bournemouth.

Extract

The Japanese observers Ido, Hoki, Ito and Wani (1916) state that in Infectious Jaundice the infective organism—the Spirochaeta icterohaemorrhagiae—is transmitted probably from rats to man by means of the urine of rats, directly or indirectly.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1918

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