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Chemical Composition of Rickettsia prowazeki

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THE chemical composition of the causative organism of epidemic typhus fever, Rickettsia prowazeki, is quite obscure. A chemical study was therefore undertaken of Rickettsia cultivated in the lungs of white mice, purified suspensions of which are used for the preparation of vaccines1.

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  1. Institute of Virology of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow

    V. I. TOVARNICKIJ

  2. Central Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow

    M. K. KRONTOVSKAJA

  3. Institute of Virology of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow

    N. V. ÄŒEBURKINA

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TOVARNICKIJ, V., KRONTOVSKAJA, M. & ÄŒEBURKINA, N. Chemical Composition of Rickettsia prowazeki. Nature 158, 912 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158912a0

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