TYPHOID BACILLI CARRIERS.

Typhoid Fever and Typhoid Carriers

Ampicillin Treatment of Typhoid Carriers.

THE change in the clinical course of typhoid fever due to treatment with chloramphenicol has been one of the more dramatic triumphs of the antibiotic age. A prolonged fever has been converted into a short sharp febrile illness, so that the patient suffering from the disease, instead of being dangerously ill for several weeks, may well be sitting up in bed after three or four days on chloramphen...

Typhoid Bacilli and the Blood Test

Dear Sir,?At the present early stage of sero-diagnosis in typhoid fever perhaps this note may not be quite inopportune. Not having previously seen the method applied, I asked Dr. Srinivasa Rao, Bacteriologist to the Government of Mysore, to kindly give a demonstration in case I could find the necessary material. This Surgeon-Colonel Lang Browne very kindly supplied in the South Station Hospital...

Microcinematography of the Agglutination of Typhoid Bacilli.

Detection of typhoid carriers by agglutination tests.

Use of the Vi agglutination test in the detection of chronic carriers of Salmonella typhi (S. typhosa) first was suggested by Felix et al. (1935). Since that time study of the test by many workers has resulted in the accumulation of a voluminous literature which has been reviewed by Klein (1943), Felix (1951), Landy and Lamb (1953), and Spaun (1957). Bhatnagar et al. (1938) recommended the use ...