TYPHUS FEVER AMONG RECENT IMMIGRANTS EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE IDENTITY OF THIS DISEASE WITH EUROPEAN EPIDEMIC TYPHUS FEVER.

Olitsky , Peter K.

doi:10.1084/jem.34.4.365

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TYPHUS FEVER AMONG RECENT IMMIGRANTS : EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE IDENTITY OF THIS DISEASE WITH EUROPEAN EPIDEMIC TYPHUS FEVER.

Peter K. Olitsky

From the Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

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Peter K. Olitsky

From the Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

Received: May 19 1921

Online ISSN: 1540-9538

Print ISSN: 0022-1007

Copyright, 1921, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York

1921

J Exp Med (1921) 34 (4): 365–374.

https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.34.4.365

It is experimentally demonstrated in the guinea pig that the blood from an infected Czecho-Slovakian arriving at the Port of New York from Italy contained the virus of typhus fever and that this strain is identical with the epidemic virus present in man and louse in Poland.

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Copyright, 1921, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York

1921

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