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The Bacteriological Control of Shellfish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

J. W. Bigger
J. W. Bigger
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(Professor of Bacteriology and Preventive Medicine, University of Dublin.)
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No hygienist has any doubt that diseases of the intestinal tract, especially the enteric fevers, may be spread by the consumption of shellfish. Clinical experience, often repeated, led to this conclusion long before the bacteriologist had been able to detect the presence of the causative organism in the shellfish. In fact it is only within the past year that definite proof has been afforded by the exceedingly valuable work of Wilson (1928), who found B. typhosus in cockles taken from Belfast Lough.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , April 1929 , pp. 62 - 70
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1929

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