Food-Poisoning versus Cholera
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To the Editor, The Indian medical uazette. Sir,?In connection with Dr. Tomb's article on this subject on p. 494 of your issue for September, 1930, when 1 was in Calcutta in 1922-23 for the D. T. M(Bengal) course, there was an instance when several nurses of the Medical College group of hospitals were suddenly taken ill with food-poisoning; the infection subsequently being traced to an infected milk puddingI do not remember now the exact variety of the organism isolated, but it belonged to the Salmonella group of bacteria. I may add that no death occurred in this outbreak of food-poisoning.?Yours, etc.,
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دوره 66 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2016