The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 62, 297-304,
Copyright, 1935, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
A MODIFIED METHOD OF OBTAINING LARGE AMOUNTS OF RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKI BY ROENTGEN IRRADIATION OF RATS
Atilio Macchiavello M.D.1 and
Richard Dresser M.D.1
1 From the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology and the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital of The Harvard Medical School, Boston
The radiation method described by Zinsser and Castaneda for obtaining large amounts of Rickettsia has been carried out successfully with an ordinary radiographic machine. This allows the extension of the method to those communities which do not possess a high voltage Roentgen therapy unit as originally employed.
Submitted on June 18, 1935