STUDIES ON THE BACTERIOLOGY OF EPIDEMIC INFLUENZA

Abstract

The writer summarizes the present state of the bacteriology of epidemic influenza in respect to the relationship of Pfeiffer''s bacilli, an ultramicroscopic virus, and Bacterium pneumosintes or the group of pneumosintes-like organisms, to its etiology. A summary is given of the characteristics of the bacteria comprising the latter group, and a review of the relation of common colds to influenza.