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THE frequent difficulty in accounting for the source of iniection of enteric fever once led to the theory that this disease could arise de novo, that is to say, that certain organisms in human dejecta were capable of developing, in favourable circumstances, into enteric fever organisms. It has also been maintained more recently that the specific organism of this disease was capable of living and multiplying in water and soil, for considerable periods. But the bacteriological work of the past few years has discredited both these hypotheses; and the “carrier” case of enteric fever or the mild, unrecognised case of infection generally, explain the transmission of the disease in those cases in which the disease crops up in the absence of any recognised sufferer from the disease.
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Dr. J. C. G. Ledingham's Report to the Local Government Board on the Enteric Fever “Carrier"; being a Review of current knowledge on this subject. Pp. 138. (London: Wyman and Sons, 1910.) Price 1s.
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Enteric Fever Carriers 1 . Nature 85, 145 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/085145a0
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