Bacillary dysentery from World War 1 and NCTC1, the first bacterial isolate in the National Collection

Lancet. 2014 Nov 8;384(9955):1720. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61790-6. Epub 2014 Nov 7.

Affiliations

¹ Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK.
² National Collection of Type Cultures, Public Health England, Porton Down, UK.
³ Saugeen Shores, ON, Canada.
⁴ Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK; Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK. Electronic address: nrt@sanger.ac.uk.

PMID: 25441203
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61790-6

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Publication types

Historical Article

MeSH terms

Adult
Dysentery, Bacillary / history*
Dysentery, Bacillary / microbiology
France
History, 20th Century
Humans
Male
Shigella flexneri / isolation & purification*
World War I*