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THE BACTERIOPHAGE AND ITS BEHAVIOR 



Therefore, with Germaine Mel there was a bacteriophage 



of maximum activity, even from the beginning of the disease. Recovery 

 took place within twenty-four hours. 



Case 2. Marie Leb (twenty-six years, chart 2). This 



Chart 3. Victor Ker (6 years) Dysentery (Shiga) 



f B. dysenteriae from the patient 



Virulence for \ B. dysenteriae, stock strain 



[ B. coll 



Stools contained blood= 



case was one with a mild dysentery, due to B. dysenteriae Shiga. The 

 stools were typical, containing blood and mucus. She was admitted 

 to the Hospital on the eighth day of the disease. The first stool con- 

 taining blood had been passed the day before. 



Upon entrance to the Hospital the feces contained a bacteriophage 



