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A Severe Outbreak of Food Infection Caused by a Paratyphoid Carrier1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

R. Trommsdorff ,
L. Rajchman  and
Agnes E. Porter
R. Trommsdorff
Affiliation:
(From the Bacteriological Department of The Royal Institute of Public Health.)
L. Rajchman
Affiliation:
(From the Bacteriological Department of The Royal Institute of Public Health.)
Agnes E. Porter
Affiliation:
(From the Bacteriological Department of The Royal Institute of Public Health.)
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The outbreak of food infection which we are about to describe is of interest from more than one point of view. Not only was it possible to determine the organism which caused the outbreak and to trace its source to a paratyphoid carrier, but the bacteriological results yielded an important contribution to the difficult question of the differentiation of Bacillus paratyphosus B. and B. enteritidis, which for some years has been much discussed among bacteriologists.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 1911 , pp. 89 - 96
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1911

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page 89 note 2 One of us has made similar investigations on the pathogenicity of Bacillus typhimurium to man, which are confirmed by the results of this inquiry. Vide R. Trommsdorff (1906), Archiv für Hygiene, Vol. LV. p. 279.

page 91 note 1 We are indebted for these strains to the courtesy of Dr Prausnitz of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.