A BACTERIOLOGICAL STUDY OF FIFTY PATIENTS IN THE 1943 MOORABBIN TYPHOID EPIDEMIC

Two casesof periostitisoccurred. M.J., a female, aged fifty-two years, was a patient at anotherhospital during the epidemic. She was admitted to this hospital on December24, 1943, suffering from typhoid osteitis-periostitis of the right tibia and fibula requiring incision, again for a similar condition of the left tibia and fibula on July 6, 1944, and on October7, 1944, for recurrence in the right fibula. Bacterium typho8um in pure culture was isolated'from the pus on two occasions. The third specimenwas not examined.

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