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On the Production of Antitoxin by the Injection of Filtrates of Cultures of Non-virulent Diphtheria Bacilli

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

J. A. Arkwright
J. A. Arkwright
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(From the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.)
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We are still in doubt regarding the exact position of those bacilli which, morphologically and culturally, appear to be identical with the Klebs-Loeffler bacillus but which differ from it only in the absence of specific pathogenic power for laboratory animals. Most writers regard such non-virulent strains as true diphtheria bacilli which have lost their virulence and toxigenic power either temporarily or permanently. Others however are inclined to place them in a group allied to that of the genuine Klebs-Loeffler bacillus and express doubts as to whether they at any time possessed a claim to pathological significance (Graham Smith, 1904).

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , December 1909 , pp. 409 - 411
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1909

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