The Japanese journal of experimental medicine.
Discontinued
Publisher:
Institute of Infectious Diseases,. Tokyo : Institute Of Medical Science, The University Of Tokyo
Frequency: Bimonthly
Country: Japan
Language: jpn
Author(s):
Tōkyō Daigaku. Densenbyō Kenkyūjo., Tōkyō Daigaku. Ikagaku Kenkyūjo.
Start Year:1928 - 1990
Identifiers
| ISSN: | 0021-5031 (Print) 0021-5031 (Linking) |
| NLM ID: | 9800765 |
| (DNLM): | J04820000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 01754210 |
| Coden: | JJEMAG |
| LCCN: | 45-40942 |
| Classification: | W1 JA952 |
Some factors affecting isolation of Clostridium tetani from human and animal stools. Clostridium tetani was isolated from human and animal stools at the following rates [95% confidence interval (CI)]: Human, 0% (1.5-0); horse, 1% (5-0); cow in cowshed, 4% (10-1); cow in pasture, 8.3% (17-1), calf in pasture, 0% (7-0); dog, 2% (11-0) and sheep in pasture, 25% (44-14). Quantification of C. tetani in 16 animal stools positive for the bacillus was impossible in most cases, as the number of tetanus bacilli present was not large enough for this purpose. Contaminating anaerobic and facultative anaerobic bacteria in human and animal stools, i.e., C. perfringens and Streptococcus sp., ...