ATTEMPTS TO TRANSMIT RHEUMATIC FEVER TO RABBITS AND GUINEA PIGS

In a series of attempts to transmit a virus from patients in the acute stages of rheumatic fever, twenty-seven rabbits and fourteen guinea pigs were inoculated with one of the following materials: whole blood, serum, joint fluid, pleural fluid, throat washings, suspensions of tonsil tissue. Subsequ...

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Main Author: Miller, C. Philip
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 1924
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2128582/