TY - JOUR
AU - Torrey, John C.
AB - NUMBERS AND TYPES OF BACTERIA CARRIED BY CITY FLIES.* JOHN C. TORREY. (From the Department of Experimental Pathology, Loomis Laboratory, Cornell University Medical College, New York.) During the past decade much has been published in regard to the supposed danger from house flies as the disseminators of patho­ genic bacteria. More or less evidence has been presented to the effect that these insects may, at times, spread a long category of infections, including, to quote the list of PurdyI (see also Hewitt"), typhoid fever, infantile diarrhea, bacillary dysentery, cholera, tuberculosis, diphtheria, erysipelas, contagious ophthalmia, cerebro­ spinal meningitis, anthrax, and possibly smallpox. This evidence has recently been summarized and discussed by Chapin- in an interesting manner. For a number of these diseases the chain of evidence is incomplete, but for infections of fecal origin, the guilt of this ubiquitous insect has been clearly established in certain instances, especially as regards typhoid fever. Hamilton;' Ficker," Klein," and Bertarelli? have severally succeeded in isolating the typhoid bacillus from flies caught in the neighborhood of typhoid fever cases, although the attempts of other investigators under similar circumstances have been fruitless. Hamilton, first, in 1903, was able to prove that an outbreak of typhoid 
TI - Numbers and Types of Bacteria Carried by City Flies
JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1093/infdis/10.2.166
DA - 1912-03-01
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SP - 166
EP - 177
VL - 10
IS - 2
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