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Accession Number:
AD0838260
Title:
THE BACTERIAL DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF ANTHRAX BY MEANS OF A NEW SPECIFIC TEST (THE STRING OF PEARLS TEST 'PERLSCHNURTEST')
Corporate Author:
FORT DETRICK FREDERICK MD
Report Date:
1968-07-01
Abstract:
The testing of 50 anthrax strains consequently revealed that two strains grow atypically in bouillon, that five are pathogenic neither for mice nor for guinea pigs, and that eleven behave negatively in thermo precipitation. Of the 50 strains, each tested for eleven properties, eleven bouillon 2 pathogenicity 1 Ascoli 8 acted atypically relative to one test method, and three strains pathogenicity, Ascoli relative to two methods.
Supplementary Note:
Trans. of Zentralblatt fuer Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde und Infektionskrankheiten. Abt. 1. Originale (West Germany) v159 p494-500 1953.
Pages:
0013
Distribution Statement:
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. Document partially illegible.
File Size:
0.54MB
