THE CLASSIFICATION OF HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCI

R A Kinsella; H F Swift

doi:10.1084/jem.28.2.169

THE CLASSIFICATION OF HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCI

J Exp Med. 1918 Aug 1;28(2):169-80. doi: 10.1084/jem.28.2.169.

Authors

R A Kinsella¹, H F Swift

Affiliation

¹ Medical Clinic of the Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, New York.

Abstract

1. The hemolytic variety of streptococcus is homogeneous, consisting of members that are nearly identical. 2. This homogeneity is most strikingly displayed in the behavior of these streptococci in the complement fixation reaction, all the strains studied reacting in a nearly identical way with all the antisera.