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Agglutination of Bacilli of the Alkaligenes, Colon and Typhoid Groups by the Blood Serum of Cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

W. St Clair Symmers  and
W. James Wilson
W. St Clair Symmers
Affiliation:
Musgrave Professor of Pathology, Queen's College, Belfast
W. James Wilson
Affiliation:
Joint Lecturer on Sanitary Science; Riddel Demonstrator in Pathology and Bacteriology, Queen's College, Belfast.
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By means of a method introduced by one of us (Wilson, 1907), a bacillus closely resembling B. faecalis alkaligenes was recently isolated from Belfast tap water. This bacillus, for the purposes of this paper, will be spoken of as B. Grosvenor, it having been attained from a house in Grosvenor Road. We find that emulsions of this bacillus are agglutinated, often in high dilutions, by the blood serum from practically every case of the cerebro-spinal meningitis at present existing in epidemic form in Belfast.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , June 1908 , pp. 314 - 321
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1908

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