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Laboratory Notes on Plague in Kenya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

F. P. G. De Smidt
F. P. G. De Smidt
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(From the Medical Research Laboratory, Nairobi.)
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This paper presents a summary of the work on Plague carried out in the Bacteriological Section of the Kenya Medical Research Laboratory, during the period August, 1926, to December, 1928, in connection with the preparation of prophylactic plague vaccine. It is divisible under the following sections:

A. Preparation of a vaccine of Haffkine type at Nairobi.

B. Tests on rats of the immunising potency of the vaccine.

C. Notes on the application of plague vaccine for human prophylaxis:

I. Experience in Kenya.

II. Discussion of the relative values of agar-grown and Haffkine's plague vaccines.

D. Notes on bacteriology and serology of Bacillus pestis:

I. Growth in fluid cultures under various conditions, etc.

II. Agglutinating sera and absorption tests.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , July 1929, pp. 201 - 218
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1929

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