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THE 1945 report of the Governing Body of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine records a wide range of researches of which its director and staff may rightly be proud. The continued study of Vi bacteriophage has added one further Vi-phage type of the typhoid bacillus to the list of new types or subtypes identified in the British Isles, and there is evidence that unknown phage-types of typhoid and paratyphoid B bacilli are being introduced from abroad. The typing of Bact. typhi-murium, which is one of the commonest causes of food-poisoning in Great Britain and other countries, is proceeding and a scheme has been prepared for the routine application of the Vi test to future cases of typhoid fever, with the object of keeping a check, so far as this is possible, on persons who are likely to become persistent carriers of typhoid bacilli.
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LAPAGE, G. THE LISTER INSTITUTE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. Nature 157, 26–27 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157026a0
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