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A New Method for the Isolation of Organisms from Faeces and Sputum, with some observations on Haemolytic Streptococci in Faeces obtained by this Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

E. Wordley
E. Wordley
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(From the Pathological Dept.St Thomas's Hospital.)
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Professor L. S. Dudgeon, when consulting bacteriologist to the Forces in the Balkans during the late war, had tried the effect of drying the stools of suspected dysentery patients on some porous material so as to leave only the mucus. In bacillary cases he found that a more abundant growth of dysentery bacilli was obtained from the dried mucus than from the untreated specimen, so that the drying had no harmful effect on the organisms. He used for this purpose unglazed red tiles such as were to be found locally, and suggested that the method should be given a more thorough trial with a more satisfactory type of tile made in this country. With this view the following experiments were made.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , July 1921 , pp. 60 - 68
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1921

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