STUART'S Transport this Medium (11, about 12) was adopted by this laboratory about 8
years ago as the standard procedure for submitting clinical specimens normally collected on …

Materials and Methods. It was decided at the outset to avoid all chemical and physical methods
which might produce degradation of the envelope and the formation of haptenes. Most of …

During the last eight years, 5700 strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae have been isolated and
tested for sensitivity to penicillin and sulfadiazine in the Public Health Laboratory (Toronto). At …

ZOSTER has been included for many years among the virus diseases mainly on the ground
that no causal organism can be found either in the skin-lesions or in the central nervous …

The tumour-exciting agents of avian sarcomata may be precipitated by highspeed centrifugation.
Protein-free suspensions are prepared which are agglutinated by the sera of fowls …

By high-speed centrifugation of the pericar-dial exudates obtained post-mortem from seven
cases of acute rheumatic infection, the authors have been able to separate a deposit of …

Concentrated suspension of the tumour-producing fraction was prepared by centrifuging the
cell-free tumour extract at pH 5.0-5.5; the sediment was re-suspended and digested with …

Methods Specimens of genital discharge were sent to the laboratory in a modified Stuart's
transport medium (Amies, 1967a) in which the viability of the gonococcus is main-tained for a …

Suspensions of elementary bodies were obtained from the fluid of varicella vesicles and
were tested against 61 specimens of serum [img 1T81253. tif] obtained from 55 cases of …

A new species of Haemophilus, Haemophilus vaginalis, has recently been incriminated as
the cause of human non-specific vaginitis and urethritis. A very similar if not identical …