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THE author has divided the contents of this book into sections comprising (1) infections from food, (2) intoxications from food, (3) zoo-parasitic infections acquired through food. The section which deals with food infections includes not only food poisoning due to the Salmonella group of bacteria, but also infections such as B. tuberculosis, B. melitensis (undulant or Malta fever), Streptococcus epidemicus (septic sore throat), and the ray fungus (actinomycosis). This must be regarded as a somewhat arbitrary list, which, if it includes actinomycosis and septic sore throat, might equally well have been extended to include infections by B. diphtheriæ, B. typhosus, and B. dysenteriæ, all of which are in greater or less degree conveyed by food and drink. No mention is made of the possible transmission by milk of the B. abortus of cattle and the illness which it causes in man, though the author refers to the close relationship which exists between this organism and the virus of undulant fever, B. melitensis.
Food Infections and Food Intoxications.
By Prof. Samuel Reed Damon. Pp. viii + 266 + 18 plates. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1928.) 18s. net.
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S., H. Medical Science. Nature 122, 538 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122538b0
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