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BACTERIOLOGICAL examination of the common agama lizard (Agama agama), which is plentiful in Ibadan, revealed that 18 of the 160 animals examined (11.2 per cent) were fæcal carriers of Salmonellae. A variety of types were isolated, including Salmonella elizabethville (2), S. kingston (3), S. durban (1), S. takoradi (1), S. kaapstad (1), and a new type which has been assigned the provisional antigenic formula 4, 12 … i : 1, 6.
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COLLARD, P., MONTEFIORE, D. The Agama Lizard as Reservoir of Salmonellae in Nigeria. Nature 179, 164 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179164b0
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