Open AccessA STUDY OF THE TOXICITY OF DIPHTHERIA BACILLI ISOLATED FROM IMMEDIATE CONTACTS
Author(s) -
F. W. Hachtel,
Mary Shedwick Bailey
Publication year - 1920
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.10.1.42
Subject(s) - diphtheria , bacilli , virulence , environmental health , medicine , virology , biology , vaccination , bacteria , gene , biochemistry , genetics
The members of the community at large are not often sources of diphtheria infection and we must look elsewhere to find the factors of greatest danger. School children do not furnish the source of infection. These investigators point to convalescents and contacts as being the probable distributors of the virulent bacilli.