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In 1906 White isolated Bacillus cholerae suis from the 

 intestine of the honey "bee. Very prohahly this is the 

 same organism which is now known "by the name Salmonella 

 choleraesuis (Bergey's Manual, 1939* 5th ed. , p. kko. ) 



White, G-. F. I906 The "bacteria of the apiary with special 

 reference to "bee diseases. U. S. Dept. Agr. , Bur. Ento- 

 mol., Tech. Bull. No. 1^, 50 pp. 



Salmon ella enter 1 t I d l s (Gaertner) Castellani 



and Chalmers 



(See also Danysz "bacillus. ) 



Insect concerned: Louse. 



Huang, Chang, and Lieu (1937)* during their studies on 

 17 cases of systemic infection of Salmonella enteritidis 

 not associated with food poisoning, found that finely 

 ground lice from their patients gave a growth of Salmonella 

 enteritidis when cultured on nutrient media. 



Huang, C. H. , Chang, H. C, and Lieu, V. T. 1937 Sal- 

 monella infection. A study of 17 cases of S. enteritidis 

 septicemia. Chinese Med. J. , 52, ^h^-^,66. 



Salmonella par aty ph 1 (Kayser) Bergey et al. 

 (See Bacterium paratyphi . ) 



Salmonella schottmulleri var. alvei Hauduroy 

 (See Bacillus paratyphi alvei . J 



G-enus : Shigella 



Sh 1 GELLA DYSENTER I AE ( Shiga) Castellani and Chalmers 



Insect concerned: The "blue-hottle fly, Chrysomyia mega - 

 cephala . 



Chow (I9U0) found that 8 per cent of the hlue hottle 

 flies ( Chrysomyia megacephala ) caught hy him in Peiping 

 harhored Shigella dysenteriae . Experimentally hoth 

 Shigella dysenteriae and Eberthella typhosa survived in 

 or outside the fly's oody for 5 to 6 days. 



