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The Significance of the Occurrence of Bacteriophage for Dysentery Bacilli in Water Supplies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

A. J. Ehodes  and
M. Ludlam
A. J. Ehodes
Affiliation:
From the Bacteriology Department, University of Edinburgh
M. Ludlam
Affiliation:
From the Bacteriology Department, University of Edinburgh
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FOr many years it has been a matter of common knowledge that bacteriophages can be easily isolated from water supplies. They were first demonstrated in water by Dumas in 1920, and many authors have since confirmed his observation (Arloing & Chavanne, 1925; Manoliu & Costin, 1925; Arloing & Sempé, 1926; Bilouet, 1926; d'Herelle, 1926; Monteiro, 1926; Bujanowski, 1929; Gildemeister & Watanabe, 1931; Stewart & Ghosal, 1931–1932; Schuurman & Schuurman-ten Bokkel Huinink, 1934; Dienert, 1934; Vagedes & Gildemeister, 1934; Panayotatou, 1935; Nick, 1936). These workers have recorded the presence of phages lysing dysentery, coliform, typhoid, paratyphoid, and, sometimes, cholera organisms in a wide variety of water supplies: e.g. lake, river, stream, canal and tap waters; phages have also been detected in sea water close to the shore.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 39 , Issue 6 , November 1939 , pp. 658 - 663
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1939

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