The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 34, 365-374,
Copyright, 1921, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
TYPHUS FEVER AMONG RECENT IMMIGRANTS
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EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF THE IDENTITY OF THIS DISEASE WITH EUROPEAN EPIDEMIC TYPHUS FEVER.
Peter K. Olitsky M.D.1
1 From the Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
It is experimentally demonstrated in the guinea pig that the blood from an infected Czecho-Slovakian arriving at the Port of New York from Italy contained the virus of typhus fever and that this strain is identical with the epidemic virus present in man and louse in Poland.
Submitted on May 19, 1921