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The typing of strains of Bact. paratyphosum B by the biochemical method of kristensen and Bòjlen

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Jean Macnaughtan
Jean Macnaughtan
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From the Department of Bacteriology, University of Edinburgh
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Results are given of the typing (by biochemical fermentation tests) of 290 strains of Bact. paratyphosum B isolated during an epidemic in the north of Scotland. Of these strains 283 were of type R3I1. Seventy-four strains isolated in or around Edinburgh later in the same year, and 107 strains from three patients were also typed. Some variation (2·4 % in the north and 4 % in Edinburgh) was observed, but, in general, typing by the fermentation of rhamnose and inosite is of epidemiological significance.

I am indebted to Dr Kirkpatrick for supplying strains of Bact. paratyphosum B and providing access to the necessary records, to Dr Seiler for epidemiological notes on the Edinburgh cases, and to Prof. Mackie for his valuable advice and encouragement.

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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 43 , Issue 6 , September 1944 , pp. 411 - 412
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1944

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