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The diagnostic significance of anti-dysentery bacteriophage

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Conclusions

1. Anti-dysentery bacteriophage was found in only 29.1% of 55 cases presenting acceptable evidence of chronic infection by S. dysenteriae.

2. An anti-dysentery bacteriophage was found in 12.8% of 86 miscellaneous control cases none of whom presented evidence of infection by S. dysenteriae.

3. The clinical and bacteriologic significance of anti-dysentery bacteriophage in chronic intestinal infections is not as yet sufficiently well defined to justify the term “diagnostic bacteriophage.”

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    Thomas T. Mackie M.D.

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Delivered at the Thirty-ninth Annual Session of the American Gostroenterological Association, Atlantic City, N. J., May 4–5, 1936.

From the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Cornell University Medical College, New York.

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Mackie, T.T. The diagnostic significance of anti-dysentery bacteriophage. American Journal of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition 3, 673–677 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02999188

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