While there are some who would argue that the origin of Lolita fashion can be traced back to fiction (namely, the 1955 novel, Lolita, which was adapted to film in 1962 and again in 1997) and has relevance to sexual attractiveness with reference to the young, this popular style developed more recently into a subcultural identity in Japan as a distinctive style in its own right. This article rega...

Fluorescence under ultra-violet irradiation has been described by one of us as a criterion for the detection of Ps. pyocyanea on culture plates (Lowbury, 1951). In mixed cultures we have recently found colonies showing typical fluorescence which proved on subculture to be Bact. coli. The colonies of the subculture did not fluoresce. It was thought that colonies of these bacteria in the original...

The nasopharynx of known meningococcal carriers without signs of acute meningococcal disease as well as cerebrospinal fluid from patients with acute meningococcal disease were cultured on Thayer-Martin agar. Pili were observed in negatively stained preparations of over 80% cells from all primary cultures of both nasopharnyx and cerebrospinal fluids. Although pili were abundant on cells from al...