Intrigued by the 99-year-old stool sample, the first in Britain's National Collection of Type Cultures, Alison Mather, another scientist on the team, set out to find the soldier with the sample's name, Cable, her only starting clue.
Date: Nov 07, 2014
Category: Health
Source: Google
Researchers decode bacteria from WWI soldier who died of dysentery
Bacillary dysentery from World War 1 and NCTC1, the first bacterial isolate in the National Collection, Alison Mather, et al., doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61790-6, The Lancet, published online 8 November 2014.