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THE EFFECT OF TOTAL BODY X‐IRRADIATION ON LATENT PNEUMOCOCCUS INFECTION IN GUINEA PIGS AND THE EFFECT OF STREPTOMYCIN TREATMENT
Author(s) -
Körlof Bengt
Publication year - 1956
Publication title -
acta pathologica microbiologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.909
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1600-0463
pISSN - 0365-5555
DOI - 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1956.tb00991.x
Subject(s) - streptomycin , microbiology and biotechnology , guinea pig , biology , breed , strain (injury) , bacteria , antibiotics , zoology , anatomy , endocrinology , genetics
SUMMARY A latent infection with pneumococcus type B 19 in a guinea pig breed could be activated by 425 r total body X‐irradiation. In about 40 per cent of the dead animals this bacterial strain could be isolated. Streptomycin treatment totally eliminated the pneumococcus infection. After streptomycin treatment even other bacteria, especially the coliform, exhibited a lower frequency in post mortem cultures from the dead, irradiated animals.