The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 33, 99-105,
Copyright, 1921, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
STUDY OF THE CLASSIFICATION OF MENINGOCOCCI
Augustus B. Wadsworth M.D.1,
Ruth Gilbert 1, and
Alice Hutton 1
1 From the Division of Laboratories and Research of the New York State Department of Health, Albany.
The meningococcus, like some other pathogenic species, varies in its agglutination in immune serum, some strains being readily agglutinable while others agglutinate with difficulty in their homologous serum as well as in heterologous serums. The different strains appear to vary also in their action as antigens. In order to secure representative strains, therefore, it was thought necessary to consider the antigenic action as well as the agglutinability of the cultures.
Submitted on July 8, 1920