TY - JOUR
AU - Olitsky, Peter K.
AB - PET E R K. a LIT SKY From the Pathological Laboratory of the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York In a communication dealing with the etiology of typhus fever, Plotz! presented a review of the evidence which led him to believe that the virus is nonfiltrable. No effort was made at that time to give all the facts leading to this conclusion. It is the purpose of my paper to analyze the previous work, and to present new evidence bearing on the nonfiltrability of typhus virus. The basis for the assertion that the virus is filtrable is a single, very doubtful, experiment of Nicolle, Conor, and Conseil." As additional support, the single incomplete experiment of Wilder" is usually quoted. Thus, W olbach" classified typhus among the filtrable viruses on such evidence; so did Leffler" and Lipschutz." R. Kraus' stated dogmati­ cally that typhus-fever virus was filtrable, while Park and Williams" asserted that there was "the possibility of the virus having a filtrable stage." Jordan quite recently stated that "inoculation with filtered blood does, however, render monkeys refractory to further infection, according to the testimony of several observers." In reviewing the original sources of the assumption that the virus is filtrable 
TI - The Nonfiltrability of Typhus-Fever Virus*
JO - The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1093/infdis/20.4.349
DA - 1917-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-nonfiltrability-of-typhus-fever-virus-LlVYuar0KR
SP - 349
EP - 356
VL - 20
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -