The Interrelationships between the various members of theB. enteritidis—B. paratyphosusB Group of Bacteria

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Abstract
In a series of investigations on the epidemic spread of bacterial infection among mice (Topley, 1919, 1921), it has repeatedly been noted that, if an epidemic be started among a mouse-population by feeding certain animals on cultures of B. gaertner and subsequently introducing other susceptible mice into the cage, a varying proportion of these latter may succumb to infection with an organism morphologically and culturally identical with B. gaertner, but differing sharply from it in regard to its agglutination reactions. This organism has been referred to in previous communications as belonging to the B. suipestifer group, using that term to include B. aertrycke and other closely related types.